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
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, Anton Shepelev wrote:
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[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.
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But I do wonder if there will be a movement away from the corporate
islands eventually?
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I use USENET and foreign web sites to keep abreast of many things.
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My wife uses her iPhone and Facebook for what she considers news.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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