Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 03/21/2018 03:47 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 12:05:53 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> > On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> >
> > > On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine
> > > popping down to the local pub for a pint and a bit of conversation, only
> > > to find that it's part of a huge chain run by a transnational
> > > conglomerate.  I much prefer the Usenet model, although web sites that
> > > let you leave messages come pretty close. What I don't like are those
> > > web sites that make you log in through Facebook in order to post.  Since
> > > I don't have a Facebook account and never will, such sites will have to
> > > do without my pearls of wisdom.  :-)
> >
> > Maybe we should move back to USENET.  It worked pretty well, and it's still
>
> Maybe we should just continue to talk about email in this thread. Keeps
> it on-topic etc. Feel free to contribute to it.

POT vs KETTLE ?

For the record, very many OT sub-threads to threads I began have been 
*VALUABLE*.
One liners which are nominally ON-Topic, much less so ;/
YMMV