On Social Media

Okay, I'm leaving this group. Too social for my tastes. I'll be on G+ for months, probably.

Tonight we're gonna party like it's Two-Zero-One-Nine There's actually an attractive element to places with an expiration date. Besides in novels like The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Nick Harkaway's Tigerman and that party in Iain M. Banks' Hydrogen Sonata , I betcha they've existed in real life. I'm just too lazy to look them up at the moment. Anyway, that's a party we can be having until next summer. #partyattheendofG+ I think the party should be hosted by #subgenius people, as we hold an end-of-the-planet party every summer, at X Day.

In case nobody else has reblogged this from #Slate. PS: I do not support the opinions or anything else in the article. https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-plus-vulnerability-breach.html

There should be a sub-group or whatever for the bargaining phase of our grief. I mean increasingly desperate schemes to keep G+ alive. Toward that, I noticed Neil Gaiman made his first public post here in years , a few days ago. So here's my cunning plan: Get Mr. G and/or other famous authors to start writing serial fiction exclusively on G+ !! (Sorry for dragging you into this, Neil.)

Google admits creating a secure G+ is beyond their programmers' capabilities! (Just another taunt to throw at Google if you're confronting them.)

Within the Diaspora-verse, I'm still at just_john (at) joindiaspora.com . http://joindiaspora.com

What's the state of the art for cellphone-based usenet readers? With a few servers, we could set up newsgroups without connecting them to the rest of the planet, if my understanding of the structure is anywhere near correct.