[sf-lug] Usenet 2.0 (was Suspicious email from LinuxMafia)

[GoOSSBears]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers and Rick Moen 
>> I have been reading Usenet newsgroups for a long time.
 
>/me waves to a fellow devotee.

Maybe GNU Social[1] can replace or has already replaced the 
Usenet newsgroups?  After all, aren't the many independent GNU 
Social instances[2] almost drop-in replacements for Usenet's 
alt.xxx.yyy.zzz groups?

Big positives for GNU Social are that they are _not_ Facebook 
(see[3]) and they may already have more mindshare and use than 
Diaspora[4] currently has.
OTOH, GNU Social's use of PHP[5] isn't _universally_ approved[6] :-/.


References:
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[1]https://gnu.io/social
[2]http://skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_GNU_social_Instances
[3]http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/winolj.html
[4]https://diasporafoundation.org/
[5]https://gnu.io/social/resources/faq/
[6]https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

-A
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Go Open Source Software Bears!


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