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#eternalseptember

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Today marks 5 years since I last went into an office for work.

I left early that day (a Wednesday) because I had some kind of stomach bug and vomited. It was a $50 Lyft ride from Brickell, in Miami to the then BB&T commuter parking lot in far west Sunrise just past Sawgrass Mills.

The office officially closed that Friday, and I retired in September 2021.

For me, time has warped into having no meaning and today is simply March, 1837, 2020.

USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

NovaBBS
https://novabbs.org

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://www.i2pn2.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe
novabbs.orgRocksolid Light - Available Newsgroups
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@BeAware I haven't had (almost) any such issues with #fediseer, but my primary audience has been #lemmy and the #threadiverse instead of microblogging. There's surprisingly different norms that have been organically reached in mastodon over the past decade which are fairly alien outside it.

It honestly feels more like a small group of people trying to futilely hold back the Eternal September through scolding and pile-ons.

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@themizzi @kissane

they don't want "the normies"

they fear an #eternalseptember

thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"

and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here

otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized #socialmedia

to do that we have to make the process of getting into the #fediverse dead simple

dead. simple.

even picking a server is a step too high for many

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@NaClKnight

yeah

if we ever want #mastodon #fediverse to grow, it has to be dead simple

dead. simple.

"i don't want all these normies on mastodon"

you kind of do

otherwise they are off in #twitter land or #rednote land or #facebook land getting mindwiped, and then voting

you can curate your mastodon experience to your hearts content, and avoid them all

don't worry about #eternalseptember on mastodon

worry about #plutocrat agendas controlling hordes of zombies

After a couple of years’ participation in the #fediverse, I’ve realized I can’t maintain my usual sincere and open attitude to enjoy my exchanges here.

Instead, I’ve reverted to the troll-blocking mindset I developed on #IRC in the 1990s. The #EternalSeptember that started there continues to produce edgelords here.

They’re just attention and audience thieves, not worth the energy for anything more than indifferently blocking them on first contact.

I kinda think #EternalSeptember is as made-up as Stockholm syndrome (e.g., they couldn't understand how hostages could be sympathetic to captors)

nerds can't imagine becoming the grumpy conservative mad about immigrants to their new thing. yet they become extra pissed when people turn a new leaf on DND.

OH: "the fediverse is so conservative and hostile to change"

yup, that about summarizes it.

constantly worried about #eternalseptember (spoiler, at colleges you're SUPPOSED to get new users, be nice damnit)

not listening to new users' UX, safety, and usability concerns, (which leads to frustration, "why not just use a TTY? it's only a little speed bump")

thinking that their community server's standards of interaction extend to /other people's business on other instances/ as if it was an HOA,