Subj : Community
To   : boraxman
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 11:17:00

Hello boraxman!

** On Sunday 02.10.22 - 16:53, boraxman wrote to tenser:

 te>> bo> Google got BIG, and now it sucks as a search engine.  It ruined the
 te>> bo> W
 te>>
 te>> Nope.

 b> I think that it has.  SEO has changed the web.  We went
 b> from a World Wide Web to masses of generated half-content,
 b> much if which appears AI generated, purely to game the
 b> system to create ads.  It's harder to find good information
 b> than it used to be, and there is a preponderance of utter
 b> garbage sites that rank at the top of Google's search,
 b> because Google's model encouraged and rewarded the creation
 b> of garbage.

But google has become a verb.  "I'll google it!".  There is no  
equivalent for BBSing.  "I'll BBS-it" ..don't sound right.  :D   
..: google wins.


 b> And don't get me started on Gmail...

The DO have a fine spam-filter function.

 b> [...] I was on Facebook back in 2006 and what Social Media
 b> now has grown into something too large, something that has
 b> fundamentally shaped human behaviour, our expectations.
 b> These platformarchs control our experience and mediate
 b> between people. Some US Californian scumbag can now censor
 b> and manipulate billions of people world wide.  Ugh.

But you can ignore the ads.

Facebook seems to be a simple feature-rich common tool that CAN  
help people stay in touch.  Photos, video-chat, voice-chat,  
video/sound messages, etc.

I'm currently configuring a Fire HD for a senior relative of  
mine who is basically housebound, coping with arthritis and  
rarely gets outside contact except by traditional phone.  She  
misses the interactions of friends, their photos, etc.  I'm  
hoping that the Fire HD + Facebook will give her that  
opportinity to access what people are normally sharing via  
their phones.   A "bbs" experience wouldn't work.



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