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From: George Musk <grgmusk@skiff.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of
 the AUE regulars ...]
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:49:35 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:58:28 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> 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.
> ____________________
> 1. Genesis 25, 25-34.

You may try to make them use more modern open solutions like Mastodon, 
Matrix, XMPP. Usenet et al. are just too antiquated.
Even Gajim (XMPP client) now tries to look like Skype or Discord or 
something.