Re: A NOTE OF THANKS - BUT NO THANKS!

On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 7:22:35=E2=80=AFPM UTC-5, Pastor Mac wro=
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> On 2024-02-20 01:16:50 +0000, Chris K-Man (Zickcermacity) said:=20
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> > I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,=20
> > and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of=20
> > Google Groups'=20
> > partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.=20
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> > Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al, you have definitively lowered the=20
> > bar of internet=20
> > discourse, and provided channels for the dissemination of anonymous=20
> > hate speech,=20
> > and conspiratorial falsehoods online.=20
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> > Sadly, many members and participants in Usenet and it's distributors,=
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> > along with=20
> > participants in moderated subject forums, have gone the low road by aba=
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> > those legitimate channels of intelligent discourse, instead choosing to=
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> > take their=20
> > interests into the commercial and political cesspool of "social" media.=
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> > In their place, much like the weeds coming up through cracks in the=20
> > pavement of abandoned roads, are the spammers, the bots, the hockers of=
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> > illegitimate product.=20
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> > I highly encourage those who care about civilized internet to see other=
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> > means of continuing their Usenet discourse, including apps devoted to=
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> > providing access to Usenet Groups.
> If it means anything, I just downloaded the Unison client for my Mac.=20
> I'm also using eternal-september.org as a server. It's strictly a text=20
> based server so there's no binaries or other nefarious filesharing=20
> cruft hanging in the background.=20
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> Yes, it's a new world. Reddit seems the closest to old Usenet but it's=20
> not the same.=20
> --=20
> Pax,=20
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> Pastor Mac

Before time runs out, is there a Usenet app you could recommend for=20
iOS and Android?