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

Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:

                    As I'm writing this paragraph, there is nothing
flashing on my screen and nobody is waiting for me, so I can take all
the time I want.

  I know a social networking site where you can join chats,
  participate in forums, or publish articles.

  I can spend hours writing a forum post or article in my text
  editor without any distractions, then just open my browser and
  paste the text into the site's input field when I'm done.

  But I also don't recall anything flashing on this social networking
  site, so I don't even need a text editor to avoid distractions.

Compare that with Whatsapp or Discord.

  Alright, those are off my radar. Maybe they're cooked up for
  folks who get their kicks from watching flashing. And these
  people roll up and go, "Holy guacamole! Flashing! I'm gonna
  plant my flag right here." It's like they've found their
  personal Disneyland or something.

                       If you read writers blogs, you will notice
sometimes they write about their tools and they talk about pens, paper,
computers and text editors.  The same applies to programmers and other
technical people such as scientists.  They all talk about not getting
distracted with nonsense. 

  Is that why all these big-shot coders, wordsmiths, and scientists
  are sticking around here in Usenet instead of using websites?