Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Gryphon
From : Arelor
Date : Mon May 05 2025 05:21 pm

  Re: Re: New to this
  By: Gryphon to boraxman on Tue May 06 2025 06:45 am

 > The platform won't help. If you remember, fidonet is called FIGHT-O-NET, and
 > for good reason. The problem isn't you have to walk through a minefield to
 > talk to people. The people ARE the minefield. Where ever you get people with
 > opinions together (like here) they will bring the mines with them.

Well, I think the platform matters because some platforms are fully operated by censors.

See, if I write a Dovenet review about an RPG book and critizise it for pushing political points that are shoehorned into it, some people might be angry and argue my review is trash. **And that is fine**. Talking only to people you agree with is boring after a while and you don't get to learn much.

However, you post the same review on RPGnet and you get banned, they create a thread about why you got banned and how cool it is you got banned. The place is dying for a reason.

Communication systems without global banning authorities are a godsend. They make a total difference. They will never achieve mass appeal again because regular people can't take the heat and will rather have the Ban Police take their freedom in exchange for saving them from imaginary threats, just like in real life. This does not mean we can't use them ourselves.


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