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  • Re: We also serve, who write and boost

    From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups on Mon Jun 30 04:50:05 2025
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    Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote at 15:21 this Saturday (GMT):
    pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) wrote or quoted:
    Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more
    newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible."

    . . . and then, it got possible again . . .

    Honestly, there are so few new posts popping up on de.-Usenet
    these days that I have a reading mode where I just check out
    all the latest messages from /every/ de.-newsgroup, all mixed
    together and then sorted by time.

    Twenty years back, I'd knock out some stuff around the house,
    hop online to answer a few questions in the programming groups,
    then circle back to my chores. Now those groups are either
    ghost towns or stuck in a rut with the same handful of folks
    rehashing the same old lines.

    So, what am I supposed to do with my chores now? It's gotten tough!


    Even with the low turnout, I still manage to let messages pile up and it
    took a few hours to read all of them. It got to the point I had to set
    up slrnpull to only save 15 messages per newsgroup a day, so it didn't
    get out of control as fast.
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  • From LV-426@noreply@noreply.com to alt.culture.usenet on Thu Jul 17 03:07:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.culture.usenet

    On 2025-06-28 11:11rC>a.m., pschleck@panix.com wrote:
    "There was a time when I would read the whole internet, every day.

    Oh, not all of it. But when Usenet - the internet's first widescale
    social media - was bridged into Fidonet (a network of dial-up BBSes), my >local free bulletin board system began to import several hundred Usenet >newsgroups, updating several times per day. I would dial up to this BBS
    and read my way through all of the new posts on these groups.

    Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more
    newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible."

    https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/probably/

    --
    Paul W. Schleck
    pschleck@panix.com


    Hi Paul, thanks for that link. I like this guy's blog, there are some
    interesting reading materials there. Yesterday's post was good:

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai
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  • From Ethan Carter@ec1828@somewhere.edu to alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups on Sun Sep 14 23:33:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.culture.usenet

    Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> writes:

    Verily, in article <103p0mu$lc1$1@reader2.panix.com>, did
    pschleck@panix.com deliver unto us this message:
    https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/probably/

    From the article:

    # Blogging formalized this process: the blogroll, the reblog, and the
    # ?via? link at the bottom of the post were tailored for probabilistic
    # reading ? add an RSS reader to follow the sites you discovered because
    # you noticed that they were your favorite bloggers? favorite bloggers
    # and you were in business.

    That seemed handy at the time for forming communities, but now that I've seen the resulting echo chambers and their effects on us, I'm not so
    sure. Things may have been better when it was harder to surround
    ourselves by people who agree with us.

    Well said. It was great when the technical level was so high that one
    would be really careful about saying anything not strictly true.
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