omjaroo
2020-06-17 13:50:59 UTC
David,
I noticed when I did a search on omjaroo, you had posted elsewhere that I was making a call into the wilderness, in an attempt to spark some life into alt.yoga. I really appreciate it! And thank you for the kind words! It may be that this group is seriously dead. Or it might be that someone needs keep coming back every ten years or so and try again. I’ve noticed that things (fashion, etc.) seem to cycle in and out of favor every twenty years or so.
I have been over at reddit trying to learn yet another platform. I figured what the hay, might as well try out the "replacement" for usenet. Well I have found some really redeeming things about reddit but at the same time, it is not, nor will it ever be a replacement for usenet. It feels like a decided step backwards for human communication and evolution. The antithesis of yoga. The reasons are varied and might make for an interesting essay.
I've been over there a couple of weeks now. The first post I made to r/yoga was removed, seems I was too new (wow! what a welcome ;-) Then a couple weeks later a mod (kindly) notified me I was "shadow banned" across the site! What? Apparently a type of ban where you can post and read your posts, just no one else can see them! A silly idea, assuming you wouldn't notice that no one was responding to you. Quite bizarre. Not only lacks truth, forthrightness or honor (and other old fashioned values,) but it is decidedly manipulative. The trade off is they have almost no commercial or hateful spam. Only spam that they can make money on and none of the stuff that chokes off a great deal of usenet. It seems much "communication" is now curated by corporations while many of us continue to be afraid to lean over our fences and talk with each other. Wow! Maya on steroids!
To their credit, they did review my account and remove the restrictions. But who knows, the reddit system may very well find this post and deem it "undesirable" and ban me again. Oh well, if telling the truth gets me banned, that puts me in some very good company :-)
Jared
I noticed when I did a search on omjaroo, you had posted elsewhere that I was making a call into the wilderness, in an attempt to spark some life into alt.yoga. I really appreciate it! And thank you for the kind words! It may be that this group is seriously dead. Or it might be that someone needs keep coming back every ten years or so and try again. I’ve noticed that things (fashion, etc.) seem to cycle in and out of favor every twenty years or so.
I have been over at reddit trying to learn yet another platform. I figured what the hay, might as well try out the "replacement" for usenet. Well I have found some really redeeming things about reddit but at the same time, it is not, nor will it ever be a replacement for usenet. It feels like a decided step backwards for human communication and evolution. The antithesis of yoga. The reasons are varied and might make for an interesting essay.
I've been over there a couple of weeks now. The first post I made to r/yoga was removed, seems I was too new (wow! what a welcome ;-) Then a couple weeks later a mod (kindly) notified me I was "shadow banned" across the site! What? Apparently a type of ban where you can post and read your posts, just no one else can see them! A silly idea, assuming you wouldn't notice that no one was responding to you. Quite bizarre. Not only lacks truth, forthrightness or honor (and other old fashioned values,) but it is decidedly manipulative. The trade off is they have almost no commercial or hateful spam. Only spam that they can make money on and none of the stuff that chokes off a great deal of usenet. It seems much "communication" is now curated by corporations while many of us continue to be afraid to lean over our fences and talk with each other. Wow! Maya on steroids!
To their credit, they did review my account and remove the restrictions. But who knows, the reddit system may very well find this post and deem it "undesirable" and ban me again. Oh well, if telling the truth gets me banned, that puts me in some very good company :-)
Jared