XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/15/24 7:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Steven M. O'Neill wrote:   
   >   
   >> Grant Taylor   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 8/8/24 02:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It's a complete rethinking of the way distributed social media is   
   >>>> supposed to work.   
   >>>   
   >>>Usenet is not social media.   
   >>   
   >> ObDevilsAdvocate: Usenet is the original social medium.   
      
   +1   
      
   And it gives us maximum control over what we see or avoid.  No pictures   
   or -- god forbid -- reels, but that's a good thing. The bad thing about   
   reels is that they're addictive time-wasters.   
      
   > Absolutely. And the centralization introduced by the web-based successors   
   > (at least the proprietary ones) is a definite step back.   
      
   What bothers me is that otherwise smart people have replaced usenet with   
   Facebook.  Maybe X too, but I don't read that even if I have an account.   
     How hard can it be to do all three? The 'social media' make actual   
   conversation, as opposed to post-it notes, difficult. I "know" the   
   people I've known on usenet since 1995. I've met some of them IRL.  FB   
   people, unless friends of friends, are unknown strangers, just groups of   
   words without names.   
      
   And don't get me started about Nextdoor...   
      
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       campaign against forest fires, but nobody ever mentions   
       the park rangers he kills for their hats.   
      
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