XPost: alt.fan.usenet
From: bashley101@gmail.com
On 8/27/24 3:53 PM, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
> 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.
Unfortunately, it's pretty much all we've got now. Exceptions, of
course, but my long-term "friends" don't show up in the newsgroups at
all any more. Not even the loons.
More like ants tapping feelers as they pass...
--
Cheers, Bev
"We thought about one of those discount store caskets, but,
frankly, we were worried about the quality."
-- mortuary commercial
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