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A different point of view: why blogging (witch is not that anyway)? Normally is for telling something to a public. Now arrive the visibility issue: if to have a

by kkfx 5y ago

A different point of view: why blogging (witch is not that anyway)? Normally is for telling something to a public. Now arrive the visibility issue: if to have a public you need constantly publishing or you are a media company or your quality at a certain point in time decrease and you just enter the common "sci-pattern" of publish-or-perish, with equal results: a big load of crap who hide the little quality that still exists. RSS help because allow the public to follow rare-posting inconstant sources issueless: if you select not too few nor too many you get daily content around the desired quantity still noticing any new content from the sources you like. At that point arrive the discoverability problem: how to find good contents. IMVHO the sole way is the classic Usenet: a public aggregator no one really own of cohorts of people with similar interests (groups) BUT not limiting them to any particular cohort (subscribe groups you like at Reddit we divide users by, at Facebook by, ...) because those groups are formed out of their posters for their poster interests NOT for some corporate/business purpose. Essentially: the classic usenet + the classic web 1.0. The web part is just a way to see content and decide, RSS is the mean to read it once selected, ngs to follow changes. Anything else I know/see is by large far less effective.

ReactNative22 5y ago
What do you think of Reddit? Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old. OR is it too much moderation for you? Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately
- Jaruzel 5y ago
  > Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old. Ah, but USENet is decentralised, Reddit is not. > Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately Last time I checked, the spam still being posted on USENet is Zombie-spam by long forgotten bots. A strong kill-list in a good client should easily minimise that problem. There has been a revival of USENet by the smolnet and Web 1.0 people - some of the groups are active with almost no spam.
  - kkfx 5y ago
    You forgot the pirate part: Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr/NZBGet/* or paid binary groups. A showcase of how usenet archaic arch is still far more powerful than modern web ones...
- kkfx 5y ago
  As another user commented above: Reddit was a company, Usenet is owned by no one, you can create your own groups, share groups you like not only from you etc. Moderation on Usenet in some groups might have been strong but far from Reddit: on Reddit mods are "Gods", on Usenet mods can be pushed out simply contacting enough users via mail or some other group. They are not that powerful. Also on Usenet scoring, killfiles etc are yours so you can ban my posts because you do not like them, but others will see them, while on Reddit if a mod ban someone it's for all or no one. Spam on usenet was and issue because at that time antispam was not good as today, today we can filter spam enough, if just there is enough interested public. So far usenet is far from being dead, it's used by few to share mostly pirate binary contents like Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr series. With commercial orgs. That's not usenet of course, but that's still possible and it's useful enough to prove it's strength and flexibility. Just see another example: Popcorn Time. A super-success people have abandoned simply because instead of install an app most prefer going to streaming websites, not really because of legal actions or ban. ZeroNet is built on the same principle, it's legal, made to share websites, nearly no one seems to be interested again because they can find some place to write text hosted by someone else. Or: the issue is cultural not technical. People en masse do not comprehend the meaning of freedom so they ignore it until it's tangibly lost and at that time it's too late. Against such phenomenon there is no technical solution, only social ones...

by kkfx 5y ago

ReactNative22 5y ago

What do you think of Reddit? Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old. OR is it too much moderation for you? Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately

Jaruzel 5y ago
> Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old. Ah, but USENet is decentralised, Reddit is not. > Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately Last time I checked, the spam still being posted on USENet is Zombie-spam by long forgotten bots. A strong kill-list in a good client should easily minimise that problem. There has been a revival of USENet by the smolnet and Web 1.0 people - some of the groups are active with almost no spam.
- kkfx 5y ago
  You forgot the pirate part: Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr/NZBGet/* or paid binary groups. A showcase of how usenet archaic arch is still far more powerful than modern web ones...
kkfx 5y ago
As another user commented above: Reddit was a company, Usenet is owned by no one, you can create your own groups, share groups you like not only from you etc. Moderation on Usenet in some groups might have been strong but far from Reddit: on Reddit mods are "Gods", on Usenet mods can be pushed out simply contacting enough users via mail or some other group. They are not that powerful. Also on Usenet scoring, killfiles etc are yours so you can ban my posts because you do not like them, but others will see them, while on Reddit if a mod ban someone it's for all or no one. Spam on usenet was and issue because at that time antispam was not good as today, today we can filter spam enough, if just there is enough interested public. So far usenet is far from being dead, it's used by few to share mostly pirate binary contents like Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr series. With commercial orgs. That's not usenet of course, but that's still possible and it's useful enough to prove it's strength and flexibility. Just see another example: Popcorn Time. A super-success people have abandoned simply because instead of install an app most prefer going to streaming websites, not really because of legal actions or ban. ZeroNet is built on the same principle, it's legal, made to share websites, nearly no one seems to be interested again because they can find some place to write text hosted by someone else. Or: the issue is cultural not technical. People en masse do not comprehend the meaning of freedom so they ignore it until it's tangibly lost and at that time it's too late. Against such phenomenon there is no technical solution, only social ones...