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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:10:29 -0700
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On 7/24/24 2:08 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> 
>> [Followup-To: comp.misc]
>>
>> Athel Cornish-Bowden to Steve Hayes:
>>
>>>> Katy Jennison is another RR who doesn't seem to be here
>>>> any more. I still see her sometimes on Facebook.
>>>
>>> Yes, but she specifically announced that she was leaving.
>>
>> There is an epidemic abroad of people leaving clean, stable,
>> accessible, and independent venues such as Usenet, Fidonet,
>> Mailing lists, and IRC, for centralised capitalist
>> corporate-owned cenusured commercial "products" that are
>> huge, bloated, tasteless, and require up-to-date hardware,
>> OS, and software.  To me, this is a reiteration of the story
>> of the red pottage[1]: selling one's freedom and cleanliness
>> for immediate comfort.
> 
> It is a shame, but when I walk the city streets and see the young with
> their faces in their smart phones, I am not surprised. You get all the
> evils as preinstalled little icons, and the good stuff requires a few
> hoops to jump through.
> 
> But I do wonder if there will be a movement away from the corporate
> islands eventually?

How would that work?  The aforementioned young are too stupid to realize 
how trapped they are and/or too ignorant to do anything about it if they 
DO figure it out.  The rest of us are just too damn tired :-(

-- 
Cheers, Bev (Registered Linux User 85683)
   Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really
   embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen
   an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph.  They'd be a
   lot more careful about what they say if they had.   -- Linus Torvalds