From: rockbrentwood@gmail.com   
      
   [[Mod. note -- Long lines rewrapped.  -- jt]]   
      
   On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 6:44:29 AM UTC-6, Phillip Helbig (undress to   
   reply) wrote:   
   > It seems that my own preferences for public online discussion---usenet   
   > over blogs over Twitter---is rather the reverse of the popularity of   
   > those media. As such, I recently joined Twitter to publicize what I see   
   > as a serious problem with arXiv. To some extent, I'm blowing my own   
   > horn, but the problem is much bigger than my problem, and others who are   
   > affected are probably more heavily affected and moreover are afraid to   
   > speak out because of fear of getting banned by arXiv (which is itself a   
   > problem).   
      
   The answer is simple and immediate: fork it, clone it, and take   
   control away from arXiv. Acquisition of the archive contents can   
   be done distributively rather than from a single location. But in   
   these days of at-home pB storage (which is a thing now), storage   
   itself need not be distributed - though it should for reasons of   
   security against single-point-of-attack take-downs. A good task for   
   Anonymous ... who has now gone onto Mastodon-run federated social   
   media. It may be time for USENET, itself, to follow suit and meld   
   into and with federated social media ... as we noted last year in   
   a brief e-mail exchange. I think you're beginning to see more clearly   
   why I made an issue of over-centralization in my heads-up last year.   
   The difference between then and now is that you're no longer a mere   
   spectator: "they've come for you".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)