PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on November 10, 2020, 06:47:51 PM
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https://parler.com/auth/access
I might make an account.
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Parler is more on par with Twitter. The FB alternative is MeWe
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Avoid any social media, period.
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Parler is more on par with Twitter. The FB alternative is MeWe
Oh. Oh well.
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Avoid any social media, period.
I presume your advice doesn’t include this site? This and purpleboard.net are the only social media I currently use. I no longer visit PoA.
I do post an occasional comment to Youtube videos, but that is rare. I hardly ever log into my Google account (Youtube being the only reason I retain it.) I’ve never had accounts on Facebook or twitter.
Best social media I ever used was the unmoderated Usenet newsgroups (I first encountered them circa 1987.) It’s saving grace (or curse, I suppose) was that once you posted, it was essentially impossible to cancel your own post. While cancels were technically in the protocol, there was no mechanism to verify the cancel came from the original poster, so cancels requests were generally not honored by the server owners (it was a distributed system with peering agreements - not a centrally controlled system.)
My first ever use of a chat-like program was called TALK (later XTALK) in 1976. It ran on a CDC 6400 at the University of Minnesota. Some colleges around Minnesota were given teletypes or CRTs and login accounts to that computer, so it was possible to chat with users around the state - really cool and novel back then. First ever online multi-player game I played was a program called COMBAT (written in Fortran) in 1977 on the same computer. It had a chat feature built in. I wrote the program. It gained some local popularity according to this guy: http://www.spookshow.net/muinet.html (http://www.spookshow.net/muinet.html) It was hard on the system, so Admins actually added capability to the OS so only a single program image was needed and wouldn’t swap out (amazed that a web search yields mention of the change at the bottom of the second page of this 1978 internal newsletter: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/173161/v04n23.pdf;sequence=1 (https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/173161/v04n23.pdf;sequence=1). Now I feel old!)
I think a distributed communication system with a modern front and back end would be superior to any centrally controlled system. Simple peering agreements (a loose federation, if you will) between private system owners would minimize the possibility of any single entity censoring or controlling content. (As I recall, the Usenet protocol assigned globally unique IDs to posts, thus allowing multiple feeds into a system, thereby allowing route-arounds to compromised peering hosts.)
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My first social media was the old AVSIG on Compuserve. Using DOS. And later, WINCIM for Windows 3.11.
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Ex USENET rat myself, and I still belong to several mailing lists. Remember those?
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I presume your advice doesn’t include this site?
This is a politic discussion forum.
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Ex USENET rat myself, and I still belong to several mailing lists. Remember those?
Ah, those were the good old days! USENET was great! And I forgot all about the Purpleboard. PoA has gone downhill fast. Cessna Pilots Association forums were pretty good for a while, then they had server issues and never recovered. I'm glad that Pilot Spin is here. I hope it survives Biden's Ministry of Truth.
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Ah, those were the good old days! USENET was great! And I forgot all about the Purpleboard. PoA has gone downhill fast. Cessna Pilots Association forums were pretty good for a while, then they had server issues and never recovered. I'm glad that Pilot Spin is here. I hope it survives Biden's Ministry of Truth.
I think that Biden winning will assure that PS thrives. Now we really have something to talk and complain about, which is what we do best.
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I think that Biden winning will assure that PS thrives. Now we really have something to talk and complain about, which is what we do best.
Actually, if President Trump is re-elected, there will be endless sewerage from the snowflakes, endless attacks, so there will be plenty to talk about and complain about.
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I think that Biden winning will assure that PS thrives. Now we really have something to talk and complain about, which is what we do best.
He hasn't won even though your wife pounds incessantly that he has.
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I saw this on Facebook:
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I saw this on Facebook:
I’ve heard Rumble is the alternative to YouTube.
Also Dan Bongino is a significant investor in Parler. I’m good with that.