[ExI] MAKE THE LIST (AND THE WORLD) GREAT AGAIN !!!

[Giulio Prisco]

I like Reddit (the system) a lot, but Reddit (the company) much less.
They could decide to take down a subreddit if there are complaints by
thought cops. But the Reddit software is open source, so it could be
installed on a dedicated extropy server.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Henrique Moraes Machado
<cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Facebook.. eeeew. Facebook's format is not conductive to discussion. Reddit
> would be more suitable with its tree-like comments.
>
> Mastodon is getting a lot of hype these days, but I suspect it wouldn't be
> good either.
>
>
> On 23/06/2017 03:28, Giulio Prisco wrote:
>>
>> spike: "ExI was a big wild fun party where you could post pretty much
>> anything."
>>
>> Yes. Specialty groups are needed to work out the details, but the big
>> wild fun party is where you develop the ideas to be elaborated upon.
>> Please don't tell me that we don't need big ideas. I agree with Thiel
>> and Stephenson, we seem to have lost the ability interest to think and
>> do big things.
>>
>> I changed the title to emphasize that.
>>
>> I suspect mailing lists just don't cut these days. Yes, Max said that
>> this list must not become a Facebook group or something like that, and
>> of course here Max is right by definition, but I wonder if some new
>> format would help. Something with a very fast and easy interface, a
>> dedicated phone app (a must these days)...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:22 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Giulio Prisco
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:02 AM
>>> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] test
>>>
>>>> ...The list is certainly alive, but it's going through one of those idle
>>>> moments. I have been looking at the list archives of 20 years ago, in
>>>> particular one very interesting thread I found doing some research (thoughts
>>>> forthcoming), and yes, the list today is a ghost of what it used to be. I
>>>> wonder whether that means mailing lists have irreversibly joined the
>>>> graveyard of social media, or we could come up with creative ideas to reload
>>>> the list...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Chat groups have specialized in the past 20 yrs.  The notion of posting
>>> actual sentences rather than tweeting about, what, 37 characters? is alive
>>> and well.  There are plenty of topics you can't really cover in 37
>>> characters.  I leave that to the politicians: I have notions that just
>>> cannot fit in that space.
>>>
>>> Twenty yrs ago we used to spin off temporary subgroups, but ExI was a big
>>> wild fun party where you could post pretty much anything.  Now these
>>> specialty groups are permanent and have good focus.  I am in several of them
>>> myself, specifically about stuff I want to know about.
>>>
>>> I am surprised no one is posting about that new Intel chip or the new
>>> exos.  Perhaps fresh in my mind is the announcement of Kepler's first
>>> findings, oh boy that was a toe curler.
>>>
>>> spike
>>>
>>>
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