Post #2006061
2026-02-10 03:03 UTC
@catzilla @kboyd @tg @brentsimmons There are aspects of this I think I still sort of disagree with: going back to your example of a newspaper, if you really didn't get rid of it until you'd read everything in it, pretty soon you have a very large physical pile of old newspapers. There was a physical obligation to get rid of them, or your house (like my great aunts') filled up. That feels like a more significant obligation to me than a keystroke (mark all read) to accomplish the analogous task.
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@ron_stewart@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 03:08
@catzilla @kboyd @tg @brentsimmons That being said, I think it is great that someone asked the question of "why is it like this?" and spurred some thought and some interesting conversations. There are clearly some other approaches that are going to work better for people who approach this type of consumption in different ways.