Re: Young people peering

On 2024-04-14, D <J@M> wrote:

On 14 Apr 2024 17:55:38 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote or quoted:

What happened to the young people who wanted to set up a Usenet node?

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 Usenet was cool back in the day

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social media is moderated and controlled by agencies that control the system;
mainstream media is strictly commercial, catering to those inside the system,
thus has always been strictly controlled by those that control the narrative;
whereas, unmoderated usenet newsgroups are all-inclusive, meaning even those
outside the system may participate, and lurkers could outnumber contributors
and participants by a wide margin; unmoderated is synonymous with uncensored;
everyone knows it's typical for active newsgroups to get spammed and trolled,
and since google's exit, usenet is probably getting more popular, not less...
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+1 I agree, the reason many people we do not like to use the "popular"
social networks vary but mainly is "data mining", "privacy", "closed
source", "centralized", "you are the product" ..... the only etical
social network now in existance using http is the fediverse, mastodon,
pixelfed and so on...


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