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

D <nospam@example.net> wrote in news:fdc6b7b9-b22a-0fa3-83c7-1710be288c51
@example.net:

 
 
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.
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1. Genesis 25, 25-34.
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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?
 

I use USENET and foreign web sites to keep abreast of many things.

My wife uses her iPhone and Facebook for what she considers news.

Last week I pointed out to her the stories and opinions she thought were
hours old were actually weeks old, older, or just plein inaccurate.  I had
to go over several news stories and alleged governement feedback responses
with her and verify the dates and untruths from other more reliable
resourses.

That got her looking at a few new web sites, but she still relies on her
biased FB feed to tell her what is going on.

Her initial inquiry to me was asking why Google had suddenly started giving
her very biased political reporting and not mentioning her hobby news.  It
was a Google reset.  She had to retrain her account to give her what she
wanted.

I'm happy reading all sides of stories and deciding for myself what is true
and what needs to be verified elsewhere before repeating it.