From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:   
      
   > D  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> D  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> D  wrote:   
   >>>>>> This is the truth!  As a thought experiment I sometimes think   
   >>>>>> about how I would be able to handle usenet if it had 10x the nr   
   >>>>>> of posts, and I don't think I would.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Been there, seen that....  Circa 1995 (I forget which groups now)   
   >>>>> the text posting volume was so great in the few groups I was   
   >>>>> following that it was not possible to keep up.  I was always   
   >>>>> behind, and falling further behind each day.  Eventually the fall   
   >>>>> behind problem reached a point where I decided to just drop out.   
   >>>>> So I disappeared for a good ten years or so.  Of course, when I   
   >>>>> did return again, Usenet was a shadow of its former self as far as   
   >>>>> text posting rates go.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> It would have to be either a laser focus on a very small nr of   
   >>>>>> groups, or aggressive filtering of the subject lines.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> One did have to do both, and even so, the volume was impossible to   
   >>>>> keep up with if the group was at all active.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is an interesting problem. How is it solved in modern social media?   
   >>>   
   >>> If by "modern social media" you mean the likes of FB and its ilk,   
   >>> presumably by having "the algorithm" showing you stuff, and then you   
   >>> just doom scroll through the algorithm driven feed.  And if stuff   
   >>> does not get put on your feed, you are unaware of its existance.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Ah, so probably just setting some keywords in my client and filter based   
   >> on those. Not a very satisfactory solution.   
   >   
   > Except with "modern social media" you (the user) don't get to "just   
   > set[ting] some keywords" for the "algorithm".  The "algorithm" does it   
   > all for you by magic.  Which, unfortunately, leaves you at the mercy of   
   > the allmighty "algorithm" as to what you see, and provides a great   
   > opportunity for the "algorithm" to bias your world view into whatever   
   > its creators want your world view to be by selective showing or   
   > omission of various posts to your feed.   
      
   Sinister! I'm happy I don't have any mainstream social media! =) Mastodon   
   is bad enough. Usenet, at its current level of posts, is quite pleasant!   
      
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