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    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 8 18:12:22 2023
    https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/opinion_column/

    What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

    Steven Vaughn-Nichols



    What strikes me the most about looking back is how similar those now largely
    forgotten services are to today's websites and social networks. Yes, I can
    now talk to friends and family in real-time on 4K video, but I still mostly
    write to people. There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
    Reddit subreddit. It's all about communications, and, for better or worse,
    that's what those early online services gave us then, and what the internet
    gives us today. 

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 9 16:27:24 2023
    Am 08.12.2023 um 18:12:22 Uhr schrieb Retrograde:

    There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
    Reddit subreddit.

    Of course there is.

    Reddit uses advertisement and removes posts that they don't want there.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sat Dec 9 09:41:06 2023
    On 12/9/23 09:27, Marco Moock wrote:
    Reddit uses advertisement

    I heard from friends that were in the BBS / FidoNet scene tell me that
    there were some BBSs that had ads. Just not many of them.

    removes posts that they don't want there.
    I've had more BBS SysOp friends tell me that they had the capability to
    remove articles from echos if they wanted to. They rarely felt the need
    to do so.



    --
    Grant. . . .

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de on Sat Dec 9 17:04:30 2023
    Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
    Am 08.12.2023 um 18:12:22 Uhr schrieb Retrograde:

    There's not much difference between a FidoNet forum and a
    Reddit subreddit.

    Of course there is.

    Reddit uses advertisement and removes posts that they don't want there.

    So did the Fidonet node run by our local Radio Shack store. They even
    removed the accounts of several people who complained about Radio Shack products.
    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 9 21:25:56 2023
    Am 09.12.2023 um 09:41:06 Uhr schrieb Grant Taylor:

    On 12/9/23 09:27, Marco Moock wrote:
    Reddit uses advertisement

    I heard from friends that were in the BBS / FidoNet scene tell me
    that there were some BBSs that had ads. Just not many of them.

    removes posts that they don't want there.
    I've had more BBS SysOp friends tell me that they had the capability
    to remove articles from echos if they wanted to. They rarely felt
    the need to do so.

    That is the actual difference to Reddit.

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