Subj : Re: Community
To   : tenser
From : Adept
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 17:32:53

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

I kinda think that Google is "ruining the web" with various choices being made with Manifest v3, which is a problem because of Chromium controlling almost all of the browser market.

My preferred browser is Firefox, but at some point I'm not entirely sure if it'll matter.

But Google the search engine... Well, even there, if they're really awful, it's probably not _too_ hard to make a palatable option. As it is, I use DuckDuckGo (and thus Bing), though mostly because I try to keep my usage varied.

E.g., while I might shop with Amazon, I'll try my hardest to shop with anyone else first, so it's not a big change for me if they are terrible.

 te> that they were orders of magnitude more popular 25 years ago;
 te> now they aren't.  Why is that?  First, because they didn't
 te> give people what they wanted, and second, because you had

I tend to figure one could stop there. People went on the internet because it allowed you to do a lot of new and interesting things, including with graphics, and it didn't depend on what was available in your local calling area.

And the barrier to entry was lower than it was for figuring out how to use a BBS.

 te> "big personalities" being jerks _because they could_.  At the

....I think I get your point, but with how people are on the internet...

Well, even just thinking about the little Napoleons on Wikipedia...

But more broadly than that, there tends to be a lot of discussion about what various sites on the internet allow or do not allow.

Maybe less controlled by a single individual, though.

 te> What bunkum.  No one wants to turn the little BBS paradise
 te> into Facebook; don't worry. 

I am also not worried about this, so do understand that whatever points I'm making are more picking at the edges, rather than actually disagreeing.

But I'm excited to see what people can come up with, especially if it's something where I don't _have_ to participate if I don't want to.

 te>  bo> That being said, I'm quite interested in the PTT Bulletin Board Syste
 te>  bo> Taiwan, as it has 1.5 million registered users, with peak usage numbe
 te> Why not login and try it?

....wouldn't it be in Chinese?

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