XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com   
      
   Rich to yeti:   
      
   > > News readers had decades of evolution more than New   
   > > Fedistan clients.   
   >   
   > This is very true, and I'd bet if we could time travel   
   > back to the way distant past, that many of the very useful   
   > features we take for granted in Usenet clients today would   
   > not be present in those early clients.  The features got   
   > added when the irritation level of whatever caused the add   
   > exceeded the effort of writing the code for the additional   
   > feature.   
   >   
   > Mastadon clients are in their 'very young child' age range   
   > of evolution.  Maybe in 30 years (assuming Mastadon's   
   > still a thing in 30 years) they will have learned from   
   > Usenet and added the useful Usenet client features.   
      
   I fear it will never come to pass, because modern platforms   
   are philosphically, ideologically, and aesthetically   
   incompatible with Usenet. The are designed to conform to   
   modern UX trends that promote a /negative entry threshold/,   
   an entry dip if you will, and substitute tawdriness for   
   elegance.   
      
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