Subj : Re: Social Media Subsitute
To   : Matt Munson
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Aug 03 2020 06:23 am

On 02 Aug 20  11:31:59, Matt Munson said the following to All:

MM> Since Facebook and Reddit are getting rid of certain confrences due to 
MM> censorship, maybe we need to come up with a way to encourage those people t
MM> consider the bbs so we can have more future users for our bbses and traffic
MM> for fidonet.

Ahh, this idea again. This has been discussed soooooo many times over the 
years.

Once again, the only newcomers who will join Fido these days will be 
tech-guys looking for a nice bit of nostalgia. Not casual users fed up with 
social media. Fidonet doesn't have fancy graphics or an easy interface or 
"hook" to keep people interested. Its just a silly message exchange using 
software that one must have quite the tech skillset to configure properly.

There has to be software dumbed down enough so non-techies can easily join 
and thats coming from a Fido developer point of view. I did the best I could
with D'Bridge but its nowhere near easy enough for the non-techie.

No sane person in their right mind will configure a mailer, tosser, nodelist 
compiler, message editor etc. Nobody does that. Its 2020, not 1990.

If someone writes that wonderful dumbed-down app, *then* we can talk about 
Fido being a serious alternative to social media.

Nick

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