Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:58:28 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:

There is an epidemic abroad of people leaving clean, stable,
accessible, and independent venues such as Usenet, Fidonet, Mailing
lists, and IRC, for centralised capitalist corporate-owned cenusured
commercial "products" that are huge, bloated, tasteless, and require
up-to-date hardware, OS, and software.  To me, this is a reiteration of
the story of the red pottage[1]: selling one's freedom and cleanliness
for immediate comfort.
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1. Genesis 25, 25-34.

You may try to make them use more modern open solutions like Mastodon,
Matrix, XMPP. Usenet et al. are just too antiquated.
Even Gajim (XMPP client) now tries to look like Skype or Discord or
something.