djmarcone

Reddit has a high percentage of bots and shills so this is still real people thus more welcoming.

Good show, classic

Usenet WAS basically the internet back in the early to mid 90s,they are also called list servers, that's basically what they are.

You post to a list by topic and it appends your post to the list. It's like reddit in that there are topics and subjects but the list just goes on forever.

Each post will have your subject line and other header info and the software will let you reply and quote and so on.

The key is that it isn't very centralized, servers will copy the lists and host their own. The cool thing was it would let you post binaries. So piracy and pr0n on the internet was here b4 websites were really a thing.

There are a lot of list servers out there but my understanding is that the good ones are a subscription now.

I think they might be implementing some feeble attempt at damage control

Use qbittorrent, add the search tool to it, add all the search engines you can, and then let qbittorrent search all the torrent sites for you. Tpb is just 1 of many.

What they did to The_Donald where Spez edited comments to make the sub seem to be inciting violence, so he had an excuse to ban it, is a prime example and should be a red flag regardless of someone's politics.

The banning from several subs automatically of people who joined joke subs like "ChurchofCovid" is also a prime example.

Very hostile to differing political opinions.

I don't think it's a social media site any more, I think it's a propaganda site and a data harvesting operation.

Spez went into The_Donald and edited comments to make them appear to be "inciting violence" in order to have grounds to ban the subreddit.

THAT is straight up bullshit. I don't care what your politics are, THAT is bullshit. Then, take into consideration that MANY subs banned people for NO reason other than subscribing to certain subs for people who had opinions that differed from the prevailing policies regarding a certain virus.

Reddit was founded by a guy who actually believed in free speech.

I do IT for a local government office, and they went with comcast years ago. 3 different internets, phones, and TVs. It was mostly ok, but seemed like whenever it rained or got windy the internet would go out. Super convenient, considering they are first responders.

This office also, due to being the government and so on, has multiple comcast invoices, and after all these years doesn't know WHICH invoice correlates to WHICH service.

Of course they called, and wouldn't you know, comcast not only has no idea which invoice goes where, actually REFUSES to provide any assistance with straightening things out.

Good thing this office is getting rid of the comcast and going with a local fiber provider.

I just need certain tech groups, automotive groups and fuzzy kitties so I think kbin will probably be fine. I use RIF for reddit and it's just plain stupid to kill 3rd party apps and screw with the API after all this time.