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Thunderbird is a free open source communications suite (supports email, RSS, XMPP, IRC, Matrix, Usenet). They have an official video account at:

➡️ @thunderbird@tilvids.com

They've already posted 29 videos, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at tilvids.com/a/thunderbird/vide

They also have a general social media account at @thunderbird@mastodon.online

TILvidsThunderbirdThe Thunderbird Project is a family of free & open-source email software and productivity solutions for managing your personal and professional communications. Available on Linux, macOS and Win...

24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo

The Silicon Underground · Deja News: Google's first acquisitionBefore Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.
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

Dive into the fascinating world of early 1990s cyberspace and the clash
between hackers, law enforcement, and telecommunications companies. This
video explores the events surrounding the infamous Hacker Crackdown of
1990, based on Bruce Sterling's groundbreaking book.
Check it out on #usenet !! link to article on this link below!
news.novabbs.org/computers/art #hackerculture #hackers #hacking #cyberpunk #books #hispagatos #hackingIsNotACrime

L'idea di "#defederazione" ha un precedente ai bei tempi di #Usenet: c'era la "Usenet Death Penalty"¹ con la quale si cercava di isolare dalla rete i server i cui gestori non combattevano adeguatamente lo SPAM e gli altri net-abuse.

In Italia era stata applicata contro il news server di Telecom Italia² (all'epoca TIN)

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_D
² groups.google.com/g/it.news.gr

en.wikipedia.orgUsenet Death Penalty - Wikipedia
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In most areas, you had a choice among multiple BBSs. If you didn't like the vibe at one place, you'd call another. Sysops liked callers, so they learned pretty quickly that they'd lose out if they were bad at moderating.

#Usenet didn't offer the same choice of providers for most, but there were usually real life consequences for behaving too outlandishly there.

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In the 2000s I went back to look at a #Usenet newsgroup which had been a major part of my online life in the 1990s. All the people had gone, but the spambots were still there. The entire contents of the group were just bot spam, automatically generated and posted at nobody to be read by no one. The bots were even replying to one another’s threads with more spam. A forum where genuine human interactions had forged friendships and fostered community over some years had dwindled to nothing more than grift machines trying to sell crap to each other.

20 years later the same shit is going down again with a new coat of #AI paint, this time with revenue and shareholders involved.

gizmodo.com/metas-ai-profiles-

Gizmodo · Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With SlopHollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded.

#introduction

ich war im #usenet anwender, bei ask1 & voy/forum; bis 2014 meta, dann weg da; kurze pandemiebedingte unterbrechung bei instagram; twitter seit 2012 in 2023 🚮; tumblr: fellnasen.tumblr.com/; sonst nix; #email ist sehr groß; XMPP. kein proprietäres profil, nur hier _hier_ im fediverse.

ab projektstart habe ich bei twitter das bluesky beobachtet und frage mich gerade, was die kulturszene in diesem wirren relay-cluster sucht. ich bin da nach 8 std. schreiend weggelaufen.

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