The commercial. ad-supported social networks are so dangerous that I not only do not use them but actually block both Google and facebook in /etc/hosts. I've even asked people I work with not to post photos containing me to Facebook due to their facial recognition database.
It would seem to be that any special-purpose distro would be actively sought out using whatever search engine a user or contributor normally relied on. On 10/28/2015 at 8:31 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > >On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:14:19 +0100, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: >>There would be no Ubuntu Studio without social networks. > >Ubuntu is a major distro and as for many other major distros too, a >multimedia port in spite of itself grow up. I doubt that the big >social >networks are useful for anything good on this planet. IMO the big >social networks are sandboxes for anything that doesn't fit to a >good forum. There are forums for every domain. > >It's more useful to be present in forums and mailing lists that are >related to computers and/or multimedia. > >The big social networks collect and share data for marketing of >big companies and for misuse by governments, IOW for organisations >that >are against the spirit of transparency. > >I didn't search for crap on Facebook and Co, I just used a search >engine to search for Facebook and Co in generell. All hits linked >to >crap. > >Black and white opinions about world affairs and scatology even >when >talking about banalities, e.g. a potato in a potato chips bag is >all >search engines will link to, resp. it's listed on top of the social >networks by them self. > >That's the homepage of reddit. I did not pick some odd exception, I >just clicked on the links provided there: https://www.reddit.com/ > >There are no serious links I missed, there's crap only. > >Public relation on such a forum is like public relation written >with a >permanent marker under the blue light of a railway station toilet. > >Regards, >Ralf > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel