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

On 7/24/24 2:08 AM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, Anton Shepelev wrote:
 

[Followup-To: comp.misc]
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Athel Cornish-Bowden to Steve Hayes:
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Katy Jennison is another RR who doesn't seem to be here
any more. I still see her sometimes on Facebook.

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Yes, but she specifically announced that she was leaving.

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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.

 It is a shame, but when I walk the city streets and see the young with
their faces in their smart phones, I am not surprised. You get all the
evils as preinstalled little icons, and the good stuff requires a few
hoops to jump through.
 But I do wonder if there will be a movement away from the corporate
islands eventually?

How would that work?  The aforementioned young are too stupid to realize how trapped they are and/or too ignorant to do anything about it if they DO figure it out.  The rest of us are just too damn tired :-(
--
Cheers, Bev (Registered Linux User 85683)
   Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really
   embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen
   an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph.  They'd be a
   lot more careful about what they say if they had.   -- Linus Torvalds