That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home

[serene]

I end up paddling around in all the social media pools, but nothing measures up to my Usenet/DW combo for satisfaction and conversation. Google disappointed me by being more evil than I thought about safety and pseudonymity; Facebook started off evil, and I tolerated it until I didn't any more (I still have work accounts there: one for my day job and one for the blog, but I completely deleted my personal account); Diaspora looks fine so far, but it doesn't give me anything I can't get here, so for the 11th year in a row (I started this journal on Livejournal a little over 10 years ago), this will be my main place to do my connecting thing.

I still miss Usenet. I'm down to really only reading three groups, and two of them get fewer than 50 posts a week most weeks. The other is too busy to completely keep up with, but the (absolutely necessary for me) robust killfile I have in there makes it easier.

I guess it's good that there's not more for me to keep up with, since school starts in a couple weeks, but I still kind of wish there were.

Comments

[redbird]

I'd more or less given up on Usenet; what are you still finding interesting and functional?

[onyxlynx]

I look in on Usenet via GoogleGroups about twice a month maybe. Not sorry.

[snippy]

I checked into a.p yesterday and was amused briefly by one thread; I didn't add anything because what I wanted to say was already said.

[serene]

I still check alt.poly every day, and will until it's been a year since the last post, probably.

I also read ba.food and rec.food.cooking. The latter requires quite the killfile in order to be useful, and if I knew of a better cooking community, I'd do that instead.

Everything else I loved on usenet is dead. Sad. Soc.sexuality.general gets one robomod post a month. Soc.bi and swlab are dead. And so on. Sad.

[serene]

That rarely stops me. ;-)

[julian]

I miss soc.bi (and soc.motss) and the comics newsgroups, but when I went to get my associates (2000-2001 or so), I just dropped out of the habit, and trying to go back didn't work.

I'm hanging out on G+ occasionally still, but only as a lurker, which is annoying to my sensibilities nowadays, so yeah. DW/LJ, and so on.