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  • Re: Which providers and indexers cannot be mentioned in r/Usenet?

    From 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 1 14:28:58 2022
    Hi, sorry for butting in.

    "('', )" <[email protected]> writes:

    On Friday, 4 December 2020 at 18:16:53 UTC, dunno wrote:
    I know if you mention some indexers or Usenet provider in r/Usenet
    the message will be automatically removed by moderator bot. Since
    we’re not moderated over here I was wondering if anyone can tell me
    about them. I’m more interested in banned Usenet providers. Allegedly
    they are using “backdoored” access to the Usenet.

    It's a fair question, r/usenet isn't a forum for questions anymore so-much as a searchable archive of curated content. The mods are
    quick to remove any posts breech of their rules - https://snew.notabug.io/r/usenet I know Speedium is one of the providers they have banned from being discussed.

    I find Reddit, in general, to be a not-so-good way of having discussions
    and Q&A's online. It has reach since everyone and their grandma knows
    Reddit now but man every sufficiently large communities are heavily polarized towards a certain bias and heavy moderated.

    I used to follow this one regional subreddit before for years and I basically saw it gradually shift towards increasingly radical views. I
    feel like I was in looneytown at one point and any dissenting opinion
    are downvoted to oblivion. There's only one voice and that's the voice
    of the "mass".

    So yeah, it's a long way of saying that Reddit's "upvote" system coupled
    with heavy moderation really created a conducive environment for echo chambers to form. At least with unmoderated USENET, the moderation is up
    to the user and while that is a bit of work, it doesn't prevent alternative viewpoints to show up and be discussed.

    --
    Pointless meanderings in a bleak and lonely world.

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  • From meff@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Sep 9 23:50:43 2022
    On 2022-09-01, 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <[email protected]d> wrote:
    So yeah, it's a long way of saying that Reddit's "upvote" system coupled
    with heavy moderation really created a conducive environment for echo chambers to form. At least with unmoderated USENET, the moderation is up
    to the user and while that is a bit of work, it doesn't prevent alternative viewpoints to show up and be discussed.

    I've found this to be a general trend in upvote-dynamic based
    sites. It's prominent on Reddit, but certainly not the only place.

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  • From 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD@21:1/5 to meff on Sat Sep 10 09:48:44 2022
    meff <[email protected]> writes:

    On 2022-09-01, 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <[email protected]d> wrote:
    So yeah, it's a long way of saying that Reddit's "upvote" system coupled
    with heavy moderation really created a conducive environment for echo
    chambers to form. At least with unmoderated USENET, the moderation is up
    to the user and while that is a bit of work, it doesn't prevent
    alternative viewpoints to show up and be discussed.

    I've found this to be a general trend in upvote-dynamic based
    sites. It's prominent on Reddit, but certainly not the only place.

    Yeah. I agree. I just highlighted Reddit since it's the most popular of
    those "upvote" sites. But certainly Hacker News and the likes do have a
    similar problem.

    --
    Pointless meanderings in a bleak and lonely world.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)