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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Rif kept working throughout a lot of the day yesterday but I finally had a minute yesterday evening, very late, and sat down and launched the app… It worked for a few moments but alas that was only the cached posts. Soon it stopped, for good.

    It was very sad uninstalling rif, I can’t fathom the obscene amount of hours spent using it, endlessly scrolling my carefully curated subs, be it while pooping, waiting for someone, watching something dumb, or in the middle of the night unable to sleep.

    Sigh.

    Hey, there’s lots of nice people and good magazines and fewer bots and trolls over here, so we’ll all be fine.

    I’m fine.

    Snif.







  • Usenet WAS basically the internet back in the early to mid 90s,they are also called list servers, that’s basically what they are.

    You post to a list by topic and it appends your post to the list. It’s like reddit in that there are topics and subjects but the list just goes on forever.

    Each post will have your subject line and other header info and the software will let you reply and quote and so on.

    The key is that it isn’t very centralized, servers will copy the lists and host their own. The cool thing was it would let you post binaries. So piracy and pr0n on the internet was here b4 websites were really a thing.

    There are a lot of list servers out there but my understanding is that the good ones are a subscription now.