From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-02-03, D  wrote:   
      
   > But let me also add that I think a certain amount of   
   > patience is needed on the usenet. Dead groups blossoms   
   > suddenly, and then die and lie dormant for a long time,   
   > only to blossom again after months (or years?).   
      
      
      
   > This, in my opinion, is not the adrenaline loaded minute   
   > by minute interaction of social media and other modern   
   > platform. I see this space as a mix of the worst and the   
   > best the new has to offer in a form of gentlemans cocktail   
   > of slow communication. ;)   
      
   I can dig it. Another of my posts this go around mentioned the   
   word 'moderation'. What feels right these days are replies several   
   paragraphs long every couple days. Something like that.   
      
   That's in contrast to writing much longer tomes in another newsgroup   
   back in the earlier 1993s. Indeed, I was in USENET before the   
   dreaded September. :-)   
      
   But I never got into social media. I had a Facebook account for a   
   couple months, but just didn't like it... nor did I like Twitter.   
      
   > But, then, I'm also fresh off a disappointing stint in "Gemini"   
   > (protocol) realms. People therein like to harp on loving "smolnet",   
   > and finding some kind of satisfaction in a combination of not   
   > interacting with each other, and also writing at a frequency that   
      
   > Ahh... I did spend some time on gopher, and I found   
   > it charming. Not so much for interaction, but for the   
   > psychology of the people it tends to attract. I got a   
   > feeling of world weariness and I enjoyed the slow paced   
   > writing of some of the people I found there.   
      
   I did me some gopher too. I think I abandoned it for Gemini,   
   because although I could automate posting to both based on so-called   
   "Gemtext" (I think I created/uploaded html as well for a while...),   
   that started feeling ridiculous for someone not content with simply   
   throwing content over a wall.   
      
   > The gemini project I do not understand at all. It seems   
   > like they want to have their cake and eat it too, which   
   > never works.   
      
   I don't particularly care about protocols or input source text   
   format. For me posting is either going to feel worth the effort,   
   or not. And for me that implies a certain degree of exchange. And I   
   always so loved the inline quoting style of my earlier USENET days,   
   so... here I am again.   
      
   "Geminauts" seemed mostly people half my age or more. I don't   
   have a problem with that. In fact, having a finger on the pulse of   
   youth fascinates me. But I got the feeling they couldn't deal with   
   people too much older. But maybe I simply misread their "smolnet"   
   culture...?   
      
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