The big drawback to this sort of group is that you can't post a picture. I know you can put it on Dropbox or wherever but that's a faff. On Facebook or Whatsapp all I have to do to post a picture is Click on camera and take the picture Click on the Snipping Tool and go 'edit-copy' Click on my message and go 'paste'.
I think this medium is outdated.
Bill
Or ?classic?.
There?s always Homeownershub... ;-)
Tim
After which FB etc can sell your pic to anyone they choose.
We're tending to use Signal rather than Whatsapp these days as it's not owned by any of the big boys AFAIK.
Nope, this is just a non binaries (news)group so maybe it's you who is out of touch Bill? ;-)
eg, 'The medium' is more than capable of carrying pictures, videos and executables.
Cheers, T i m
I don?t think they can. You *have* to give FB permission to share your pictures (otherwise Facebook simply wouldn?t work) but the ownership remains yours.
Hardly a substitute for USENET though...
Tim
On the contrary, that is one of its big advantages.
The medium does allow it. It is a deliberate mutual choice (but to some extent enforced by the lack of free binary news servers) that we don't have pictures in text groups. Note that in one way or another all the forums with pictures rely on us paying much more money directly or big business making money out of our private data.
I like it like that.
There are groups that accept binaries suitable for photos but few servers carry them down to bandwidth issues.
I think
+1
But aren't they all women?
Bill
My pictures are valueless.
Bill
Don't sell yourself short. You never know, you could be the next Beeple.
Damn. You're right. Every time I see /imgbb.com/ it make me think that there is a link from an idiot to vegan related s*it so I ignore it.
The big good thing about this place is there are no pictures as I cannot read a picture and as you say yourself where is the faff in putting it on dropbox and pasting the link here, it keeps this place small, ie you do not need a binary group with its inherent inefficiency, If that is really important, go and suffer death by a thousand data leaks on Twitcface. There is no mystery on why so many people are not on clubhouse its audio only, no pictures. This place has survived with no pictures long enough to know that its not going to change cos you want it to, there are places for that and its just not here! Grin
Brian
As I say its like a new neighbour moving in and complaining about the view of your ham radio aerial which has been in the same place for 20 years, like so why come here then aka why try to change what this place has always been. Brian
Why take them or keep them, then ??
Dumb attitude. Your personal data harvested from shitfests like Facebook is what has earned them billions.
WHS!
No thanks. As well as the continuous OT posts, we'd get enormous files of fluffy kitten pictures.
Not heard of Facebook, Bill, or any of the other ones where you can post pics ad nauseam?
Or, as this a DIY group, running commentaries on the life of a DIYer, such as a picture entitled 'this is the hammer I just hit my finger with'. The picture will, of course, be badly composed and poorly lit.
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