Re: Netnews: The Origin Story

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:

One did have to do both, and even so, the volume was impossible to keep
up with if the group was at all active.

On Usenet, I often had very aggressive killfiles, not because I had anything
against the postings but just because I wasn't interested in another thread
about digital audio workstations again.  Some groups I would go into to find
that 90% of the traffic was taken out by the killfile.  But there was still
plenty, plenty to read.

This is an interesting problem. How is it solved in modern social media?

Very poorly.  Most of those systems are just firehoses and they will
prioritize postings based upon their own (profit-oriented) notions of what
is most important, not the user's.
--scott
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