• Re: We also serve, who write and boost

    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.fan.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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