D wrote:

(using Tor Browser 13.0.10) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+instagram+outage+2024

hackers harvesting account login data from unwary social media
users?

If people insist on sharing their personal data with the likes
of Meta they should be prepared for some sort of data harvesting
from someone... even if it's only Meta themselves. Facebook
accounts are free for a reason!

usenet is always available, does not require login, and
is where many former google groups users are finding new
ways to stay connected ...

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered with
Google Groups in the first place!

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(using Tor Browser 13.0.10) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+instagram+outage+2024

hackers harvesting account login data from unwary social media users?
usenet is always available, does not require login, and is where many
former google groups users are finding new ways to stay connected ...

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On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote: >D wrote:

(using Tor Browser 13.0.10)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+instagram+outage+2024
hackers harvesting account login data from unwary social media
users?

If people insist on sharing their personal data with the likes
of Meta they should be prepared for some sort of data harvesting
from someone... even if it's only Meta themselves. Facebook
accounts are free for a reason!

usenet is always available, does not require login, and
is where many former google groups users are finding new
ways to stay connected ...

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered with
Google Groups in the first place!

a few gg users had been described as "legitimate" by server admins and
also by other non-gg users going back to circa 2002, and more recently
in certain newsgroups which had been incomparably flooded with gg spam,
e.g. "fr.soc.politique" which afaik might've been the number one worst
victim of googlespam in history (lots of competition in that category);
even duckduckgo's founder gabriel weinberg posted from gg back in 2012 news:0a93f572-2b7c-47e3-823e-cd78de80dfe6@js1g2000pbc.googlegroups.com
so maybe there really were a significant number of legit gg users that
could use welcome guidance and encouragement to continue participating
in these mostly unmoderated usenet newsgroup forums...it's free to try

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On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

hackers harvesting account login data from unwary social media
users?

If people

I don't use Facefook/Meta, but hackers attempt to break-in in lots of
different sites...hospitals, companies, government, etc.

Unless a person is off-line, I suspect sooner or later everybody will
get "stoned."

Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

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On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered with
Google Groups in the first place!

GG was my backup NNTP server...only a few posts made there, in a long
number of years.

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D wrote:

On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

D wrote:

usenet is always available, does not require login, and
is where many former google groups users are finding new
ways to stay connected ...

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered
with Google Groups in the first place!

a few gg users had been described as "legitimate" by server
admins and also by other non-gg users going back to circa
2002

[Snip]

so maybe there really were a significant number of
legit gg users that could use welcome guidance and
encouragement to continue participating in these mostly
unmoderated usenet newsgroup forums...it's free to try

I'm sure there were responsible users of Google Groups, plenty
of them. The alternatives were always out there though. People
didn't need to wait until Google pulled the plug on their Usenet
gateway in 2024 to find them. Usenet providers and nntp servers
have never gone away!

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Blueshirt wrote:

D wrote:

On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

D wrote:

usenet is always available, does not require login, and
is where many former google groups users are finding new
ways to stay connected ...

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered
with Google Groups in the first place!

a few gg users had been described as "legitimate" by server
admins and also by other non-gg users going back to circa
2002

[Snip]

so maybe there really were a significant number of
legit gg users that could use welcome guidance and
encouragement to continue participating in these mostly
unmoderated usenet newsgroup forums...it's free to try

I'm sure there were responsible users of Google Groups, plenty
of them. The alternatives were always out there though. People
didn't need to wait until Google pulled the plug on their Usenet
gateway in 2024 to find them. Usenet providers and nntp servers
have never gone away!

I returned to usenet after a 20 years absense and I am surprised at how
usable and enjoyable it actually is!

Pure text, easy to integrate filters for unwanted content, and a broad
range of discussion.

The only thing at the moment is that it is a bit silent, but I think it's
just a matter of time before people will rediscover and more people will
start to use it, alternatively everyone (including myself) is free to
start a conversation in one of the sleeping groups.

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On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:22:30 +0100, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote: >D wrote:

On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:41 +0100, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

D wrote:

usenet is always available, does not require login, and
is where many former google groups users are finding new
ways to stay connected ...

If people had been clever enough they'd never have bothered
with Google Groups in the first place!

a few gg users had been described as "legitimate" by server
admins and also by other non-gg users going back to circa
2002
[Snip]
so maybe there really were a significant number of
legit gg users that could use welcome guidance and
encouragement to continue participating in these mostly
unmoderated usenet newsgroup forums...it's free to try

I'm sure there were responsible users of Google Groups, plenty
of them. The alternatives were always out there though. People
didn't need to wait until Google pulled the plug on their Usenet
gateway in 2024 to find them. Usenet providers and nntp servers
have never gone away!

but using any web browser was so much easier, and many were already using
or testing dejanews in addition to the traditional news server/newsreader;
so when big brother ... err, i mean "google" ... absorbed deja into their illustrious empire, what could possibly go wrong? by the time their "beta" appeared (29 november 2004), google groups became increasingly unreliable, dysfunctional and for all practical purposes unusable as a search archive;
but of course usenet, being autonomous and decentralized, never relied on web-based archives to begin with; easier to archive news articles locally,
that way everything is already cherry-picked and spam/trolls filtered out;
and some news servers have long rentention, some going back over a decade, making it easy to use a news reader (e.g. 40tude dialog) to search groups,
or this tor-friendly web link http://put.hk and search for articles there

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