Re: A NOTE OF THANKS - BUT NO THANKS!

On 2024-02-20 01:16:50 +0000, Chris K-Man (Zickcermacity) said:

> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of 
> Google Groups'
> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
> 
> Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al, you have definitively lowered the 
> bar of internet
> discourse, and provided channels for the dissemination of anonymous 
> hate speech,
> and conspiratorial falsehoods online.
> 
> Sadly, many members and participants in Usenet and it's distributors, 
> along with
> participants in moderated subject forums, have gone the low road by abandoning
> those legitimate channels of intelligent discourse, instead choosing to 
> take their
> interests into the commercial and political cesspool of "social" media.
> 
> In their place, much like the weeds coming up through cracks in the 
> pavement of abandoned roads, are the spammers, the bots, the hockers of 
> illegitimate product.
> 
> I highly encourage those who care about civilized internet to see other
> means of continuing their Usenet discourse, including apps devoted to 
> providing access to Usenet Groups.

If it means anything, I just downloaded the Unison client for my Mac. 
I'm also using eternal-september.org as a server.  It's strictly a text 
based server so there's no binaries or other nefarious filesharing 
cruft hanging in the background.

Yes, it's a new world. Reddit seems the closest to old Usenet but it's 
not the same.
-- 
Pax,

Pastor Mac