After a year off Twitter, I'm surprised that I don't have even a single regret about leaving. The more I think about it, the more I realize it wasn't the takeover that did it. Sure, there was a massive and harmful political shift, but there's just always been something about the platform that attracts extremely unhealed people regardless of political leaning.
You can make a post like "I just got a coffee and the milk was sour" then someone on the right will be like "Biden's border crisis is the reason we can't get good milk anymore" and then someone on the left will be like "do you think starving children in Africa would complain about sour milk?". Eventually, you just realize the platform is designed for people who's only form of therapy is logging on to the internet and being annoying as fuck.
#oggi#29maggio 25 anni fa l'on. Muscardini, indovinate di quale partito, faceva ridere mezza Internet presentando un'interrogazione parlamentare per lamentarsi della gestione di #Usenet in Italia e chiedere l'intervento della Commissione UE per liberare i newsgroup italiani da dittature e monopoli [cit.] sostituendo la gestione consensus-based con un'apposita authority de jure https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/IT/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C:1998:386:FULL&from=EN pag. 164
i can't believe i'm saying this - i just realized that i want #usenet groups back.
edit: before i get more replies, i've been a usenet user/subscriber for 30 years, and i still use it daily. i'm very aware that it's still in heavy usage.
to clarify - I'd like to see a usenet back, minus the "big 8" cabal, minus 200TB / day binaries, and all of the ugly crap we've seen since the 80s.
i'd like to see something like a new usenet offering activitypub integration, minimal data transfer (text-only), and easy group management.
So, nach > 10 "荒 ら し dot com" #Spam habe ich jetzt erst mal einen Filter auf diesen Käse eingerichtet. Ich kann kein Japanisch und Google Translate konnte mir die Bedeutung der Webseite auch nicht erschließen. Ich seh schon, das #Fediverse braucht ein Cleanfeed wie damals im #Usenet.
@rss feeds on #usenet <3 with #slrn on the #hispagatos usenet server, part of the new usenet with no binaries, only plain text, no spam, no google only hobbiest, hackers, tinkers and awesome people.
Hello world. I haven't been here long but I just wanna say that Mastodon has really rekindled my love of the internet. It feels like the best of old and new school social media, and takes me back to the Usenet, IRC, and forum days all at once.
The community is phenomenal, kind, and helpful; hashtags are great again; it's not just some centralised cesspool run by a billion dollar child; algorithm shmalgorithm; and it's FOSS! Amazing all round.
This might be the caffeine and ADHD medication talking but I love you. Take my affection and enjoy the rest of your day. :blobcat_hearthug:
Wenn ich an den Föderationsgedanken denke, fühle ich mich an zwei Ansätze erinnert: #Gravatar als plattformübergreifender "Avatar", und im Blick auf Mastodon an die alten BBS/Mailbox Zeiten... Da gab es die lokale Box, und darüber hinaus konnte man ggf. ins #Usenet gehen... #Fidonet sage ich an dieser Stelle.
So, for awhile I've been slowly conducting oral histories with queer folks from the early Internet, a project I've called Read/Write Memories (https://queerdigital.com/rwm)
I'm happy to announce that the first of these histories, with narrator Max Vasilatos, is finally available! Max was the "co-founder" of the first gay newsgroup on Usenet, soc.motss, and they had many wonderful reflections on the community's early years and its legacy. https://queerdigital.com/items/show/138
Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than a…
"Today, many folks look back with fondness on the early days of computer-based messaging. Depending on age, they may wax nostalgic for #bbses#Usenet, or #webforums. All these technologies still exist, although either barely used or are full of spam. It’s hard not to think that something may have been lost.
Perhaps the future isn’t one of endless growth for all-powerful corporations but a return to smaller, more personal “third spaces” where we can feel comfortable." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-post-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/
If you’re like me and too young to get the name. It’s a funny and kinda sad tbh part of net history.
Also very into the idea of trying to set up an off grid, text only, hyper local, community #LoRa#nntp server in PDX… anyone want to tinker? Is this a thing?
Stop Electron, stop using a browser as if it was an Operating System!!! Go #terminal#cli#TUI use your OS, not the browser for everything! And be liter, more ethical, your computer will love you! Use #Gemini#gopher#usenet#matrix#fediverse on TUI apps #vim#neovim as your text/IDE #mpv for videos and more... !!!
"So, what’s the lesson for today? Many monetized systems push for more and more users, but the history of BBSs and other early online networks shows clearly that quality is more important than quantity in building authentic online communities."
This is a little project I've been working on for a few weeks. I think the basic functionality is now working, though there are still many aspects I hope to improve. Of course much of usenet is now a wasteland inhabited only by spammers and cranks. But there are still worthwhile corners, such as comp.lang.tcl, so I think this may have some value. 🙂 #usenet#tcl#tcltk#programming
My family #email server got put onto several DNS blocklists yesterday because someone submitted a posting with a fake return address to the #Usenet newsgroup whose moderation software runs on my server, and the "fake" return address they used (@NOSPAMgmail.com) is actually a spam-trap, so when my server tried to send them email acknowledging their submission I got blocklisted.
The spamtrap in question charges money for delisting. Fuck that noise. #it
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The Oldest TTRPG Forum on the Net (gmkeros.wordpress.com)
Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than a…