Subj : Family vs Politics - Did
To   : ARELOR
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Jan 12 2025 10:20 am

> They had it figured out in the Usenet era.

> Let the providers carry everything, let each user decide what he wants to read

> It is not rocket science. The problem is nowadays users don't want to ignore
> the things they dislike. They want them obliterated so nobody can read them.

The one difference is that, with usenet, you could use your reader to pick
and choose the topics and users you wanted to see things from.  With social
media, the users swipe and there it is, already opened.  Also, some of them
don't seem to understand that what they are being shown is public and not
something that was specifically targeted at them (aside from ads), and it
isn't "on their phone."

I think the people who are most triggered by what they see on social media
are probably ones who'd have never figured out how to use usenet.

I do miss those usenet days.  ;)


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