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From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid (Retrograde)
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Subject: no different from the old days
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 18:12:22 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Retrograde - Fri, 8 Dec 2023 18:12 UTC

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/opinion_column/

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

Steven Vaughn-Nichols

What strikes me the most about looking back is how similar those now largely
forgotten services are to today's websites and social networks. Yes, I can
now talk to friends and family in real-time on 4K video, but I still mostly
write to people. There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
Reddit subreddit. It's all about communications, and, for better or worse,
that's what those early online services gave us then, and what the internet
gives us today.

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From: mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de (Marco Moock)
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by: Marco Moock - Sat, 9 Dec 2023 15:27 UTC

Am 08.12.2023 um 18:12:22 Uhr schrieb Retrograde:

> There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
> Reddit subreddit.

Of course there is.

Reddit uses advertisement and removes posts that they don't want there.

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by: Grant Taylor - Sat, 9 Dec 2023 15:41 UTC

On 12/9/23 09:27, Marco Moock wrote:
> Reddit uses advertisement

I heard from friends that were in the BBS / FidoNet scene tell me that
there were some BBSs that had ads. Just not many of them.

> removes posts that they don't want there.
I've had more BBS SysOp friends tell me that they had the capability to
remove articles from echos if they wanted to. They rarely felt the need
to do so.

--
Grant. . . .

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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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by: Scott Dorsey - Sat, 9 Dec 2023 17:04 UTC

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>Am 08.12.2023 um 18:12:22 Uhr schrieb Retrograde:
>
>> There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
>> Reddit subreddit.
>
>Of course there is.
>
>Reddit uses advertisement and removes posts that they don't want there.

So did the Fidonet node run by our local Radio Shack store. They even
removed the accounts of several people who complained about Radio Shack
products.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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by: Marco Moock - Sat, 9 Dec 2023 20:25 UTC

Am 09.12.2023 um 09:41:06 Uhr schrieb Grant Taylor:

> On 12/9/23 09:27, Marco Moock wrote:
> > Reddit uses advertisement
>
> I heard from friends that were in the BBS / FidoNet scene tell me
> that there were some BBSs that had ads. Just not many of them.
>
> > removes posts that they don't want there.
> I've had more BBS SysOp friends tell me that they had the capability
> to remove articles from echos if they wanted to. They rarely felt
> the need to do so.

That is the actual difference to Reddit.

Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity.

computers / comp.misc / no different from the old days

Subject	Author
no different from the old days	Retrograde
Re: no different from the old days	Marco Moock
Re: no different from the old days	Grant Taylor
Re: no different from the old days	Marco Moock
Re: no different from the old days	Scott Dorsey