XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   The Real Bev  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   That's quite right.  I mean, I don't know anything about FB and the   
   other, but they're all very much unsusceptible to conversation.  So   
   they're totally time-wasters.   
      
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