Subj : Re: who do you miss most from bbsing
To   : fusion
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Nov 13 2025 10:52:16

  Re: Re: who do you miss most from bbsing
  By: fusion to Nightfox on Wed Nov 12 2025 11:05 pm

 fu> i've found that even still there are a decent number of people who will
 fu> seek out a (relatively) local bbs to call. i think that's cool.

Yeah, I've seen that sometimes, and I think it's cool.

 fu> i can't help but feel the general vibe of the "big internet" now is you're
 fu> either 100% in it (tiktok, discord, ai, the whole shebang) or you're
 fu> disillusioned by it and want out. those are the type of people discovering
 fu> what the internet used to be i guess. though it's certainly easier to stop
 fu> after you've found a decent web forum, probably something to do with
 fu> emulators or old music.. heck even finding a hobby and replacing all of
 fu> your "vapid" (?) youtube subscriptions with long form (relatively)
 fu> educational content might mean you've retired from the big internet.

 fu> between those people and another group that will probably age out of the
 fu> "big internet" as it is .. i think a few more little interesting
 fu> communities might bounce back up again. that's an awful lot of people who
 fu> do almost nothing currently.. they'll figure it out eventually when
 fu> they're old(er) and bored.

That's an interesting idea. Although I use Facebook (and used MySpace before that), I've never used TikTok and haven't used Discord much. And there's a guitar forum I've used since 2013 (I like playing guitar). I only heard about TikTok in 2020, when I heard something in the news about the US government being concerned about it possibly having spyware included, since TikTok is from China.

Nightfox

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