Digging into the community's lore with lei

Posted Dec 20, 2021 17:21 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Digging into the community's lore with lei by dgm
Parent article: Digging into the community's lore with lei

> Maybe we could lead a page from "modern" social networks. [...] Imagine receiving an stream ...

A "stream" is in fact what our inboxes have already become a long time ago: a lossy medium EVEN for people not subscribing to mailing lists much. This happens because anyone can dump anything on anyone else's TODO list without needing any sort of permission. "Spam" is not just what people think, there are more subtle forms. I'm sure it was fine when the Internet was created and everyone knew each other. Not that great in today's information overload era and basically why:

> Kids These Days want nothing to do with it, and email has lost its charm with many others as well.

Where is the big "unsubscribe" button? To be in control again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRE728QiO7Y
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