Subj : Re: incoming from Telegram
To   : August Abolins
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Nov 19 2020 05:02 pm

-=> August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 > My BBS environment is intentionally separate from the web. The joy I
 > receive from BBSing is specifically because of the lack of likes,
 > links, and forwarded content. I want to read what people are thinking,
 > not what they're clicking on.

 AA> I don't think I haven't seen an echo that has never had a link in it to
 AA> either some article or even to another bbs landing page over the
 AA> decades.  The taglines and origin lines are regularly filled with
 AA> http:// links. How is that "intentionally separate from the web"?

 The majority of the content I'm reading isn't linked elsewhere, like
 in a post that's just a link to an image, or a link to an article
 elsewhere. Like I mentioned, I'm an edge case here - my environment
 is vDOS (like DOSBOX), and doesn't easily support copy/paste out of
 the environment.


 AA> Sometimes a picture can express a thought much better than a lengthy
 AA> message. An http:// link to a photo can be part of that discussion. It
 AA> would certainly be nice if that same message could provide context at
 AA> the same time.   But the presence of a message with just a link should
 AA> not flash thoughts of horror and indestictiveness from the web.  Links
 AA> and URLs are a normal thing to provide when writing a message.

 Horror? Said no one.

 > If there's a way to share the concepts, ideas and content of Fidonet
 > through alternative means, I'm all for it. But keep what makes FTN
 > unique.

 AA> The TgBBS process is an attempt to grow and draw attention to Fidonet.
 AA> What exactly is the uniqueness that you speak of?  A feeling?

 Long form posts not limited by an interface that hinders writing.
 Threaded conversations. Full headers (to/from/subject) and quoting.
 Original content. Message order controlled by the reader. Real names,
 "real names", or aliases - pick one.

 These are some of the qualities that I see in Fidonet and the
 othernets. Most of us here are sysops. While this is a definite part
 of Fidonet now, it wasn't always that way, and I appreciate the
 diversity that came when callers roamed the BBSes. It would be nice
 to get some new perspectives in here.






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