Re: net.martyr

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, immibis wrote:

> On 5/11/23 16:56, Paul W. Schleck wrote:
>> "I'm not impressed by the net.martyr archetype on-line. I saw it many
>> times on the Usenet newsgroups, and now it's starting to infect
>> blogs. People are entitled to their opinions, but the net.martyr raises
>> it to some kind of moral crusade, and an ill-considered, unproductive,
>> and egomaniacal one at that. Some of their attributes:"
>> 
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/urley0/netmartyr/
>> 
>
> " - Even if Usenet is obsolete, its history may contain lessons for 
> next-generation distributed social media that were not learned by later 
> commercial efforts like Twitter and Facebook."
>
> ^ this one. Now that I know how Usenet works, I see how many platforms are 
> just subsets of Usenet.

What I find very powerful in terms of people who write things I don't want 
to read, is to not read them.

It's very difficult for me to understand how people can be so upset over a 
blog or a message. You know who wrote it, and you can just ignore reading 
texts by that person or add the person to a killfile if you have one. 
Problem solved.