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• You can. Always post with the same handle; don't use VPNs. But modern internet is crap. Walled gardens requiring separate apps, maintenance and space, and the provision of personal info to multiple companies who sell it for ads and get breached by criminals and spammers. Persistent forums where everything you write is preserved indefinitely and people continue discussions ad-nauseam, inc replying to and bumping years-old discussions. It's stupid. TIFF/old web is good (NT) -- eganonoa, Wednesday, April 23, 03:33:35pm (pool-108-18-149-21.washdc.fios.verizon.net/108.18.149.21)
  • Tiff might have annonymity but you can't share media, photos or files. Tiff is like using dial up, when you could be using fibre optic 5g broadband. (NT) -- Mr Kurkuruza, Wednesday, April 23, 11:06:30pm (217-155-46-35.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk/217.155.46.35)
    • Then why are you posting here? Do you run the Discord group? I find it odd that you are here but complain about being here. Weird. (NT) -- RR, Wednesday, April 23, 11:28:32pm (regus.net/50.238.80.70)
      • I can buy two newspapers at my local shop and no one bats an eyelid! (NT) -- Mr Kurkuruza, Thursday, April 24, 11:10:31am (217-155-46-35.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk/217.155.46.35)
        • But do you dislike one of them and buy it anyway? Sounds like a problem you should be working out. (NT) -- RR, Friday, April 25, 03:36:18am (NoHost/104.220.143.92)
          • No I don't dislike this forum, but I like many are tired of the people who post on here because they like to, I guess, trigger negative emotions in other posters and readers. I know it's an unrealistic suggestion of mine, but wouldn't it be good if we could all communicate on a forum where people can't get away with sabotage, irrelevent posts, racism etc, and where you have the potential to share video, files, pictures etc. (NT) -- Mr Kurkuruza, Friday, April 25, 12:55:16pm (217-155-46-35.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk/217.155.46.35)
            • There is not a single online space without people who like to "trigger negative emotions in other posters and readers". That's the internet, old and new, and has been true since the usenet days. Sometimes I like to watch TV, sometimes I like to read. Sometimes I like to write texts on a message board that requires no log in, no personal information, has no ads and is generally old-school with a bunch of old fuckers who've been supporting Fulham through thick and thin for 30, 40, 50, 60-odd years (NT) -- eganonoa, Friday, April 25, 04:16:01pm (pool-108-18-149-21.washdc.fios.verizon.net/108.18.149.21)
              • You've not even looked at the alternative I was suggesting. If you had then you would have realised that it is frequented by thoughtful and polite people who post useful information, opinion, data. Actually the kind of posts you like creating and responding to. (NT) -- Mr Kurkuruza, Friday, April 25, 05:32:26pm (217-155-46-35.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk/217.155.46.35)
                • I know discord well. I have had reason to join it for other purposes and have declined for all the reasons I've outlined. If you think somehow it provides a platform free of all the things bad about the internet you don't know a lot about discord (see link inside). If you like that group then you should stick with it and enjoy it while you can. If/when it gets bigger it'll turn to shit like everything else. Meanwhile, I'm very happy here and have no intention of using yet another app -- eganonoa, Friday, April 25, 07:32:49pm (NoHost/172.56.3.160)
                  • Ha ha, you are just like the rest of us old'uns - resistant to change. That's why this forum survives. (NT) -- Mr Kurkuruza, Friday, April 25, 07:51:54pm (217-155-46-35.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk/217.155.46.35)
            • TIFF Is a pretty rare and special place in that regard. There are idiots, of course, and people whose views I don't agree with. But that doesn't make it not worth taking the rough with the smooth. And noticeably there's been a lot fewer of the old "I'm done with this board" posts in the last couple years. It's going well. (NT) -- eganonoa, Friday, April 25, 04:16:40pm (pool-108-18-149-21.washdc.fios.verizon.net/108.18.149.21)
            • The ability to chip in at a precise point of detail in a thread (without needing to quote before replying) particularly appeals -- and is unique to TIFF. This sometimes makes for exceptionally fine discussions. All human life is represented of course, and some of it you would shun in real life. But still, something to be said for exposure to behaviours, mental states and credulities that you'd not encounter otherwise. (NT) -- b+w g., Sunday, April 27, 11:19:23am (host81-159-15-98.range81-159.btcentralplus.com/81.159.15.98)