XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, The Real Bev wrote:   
      
   > 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...   
   >   
      
   What is this nextdoor thing? I have heard about it on usenet, but I think   
   it must be some US thing that has not yet reached europe.   
      
   As for fb, I am hearing more and more people who decrease their amount of   
   fb:ing or just stopped using it altogether except planning childrens   
   activities or so.   
      
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