Zoom, discord, and the like all suffer from the problem that you have to use Zoom, Discord, and the like. That limits your audience to a particular demographic.
Broadcasting over the airwaves is completely different in just about every way from those services. They don't really allow for the use case of radio.
Because Zoom and Discord are a centralized point of failure. Remember all the times there's been downtime? Radio continues existing, and there's plenty of relay stations to get broadcasts further.
what? it has nothing to do with zoom or discord or whatever social darling you want to talk about next that has nothing to do with the price of tea in china.
Do you have issues with abstract thinking? I am not trying to insult you, but the way you responded to this comment and mine make me immediately suspect you only conceptualize things in concrete terms.
Do you honestly not realize that the person you replied to was referencing that 'why' is a pointless question when the point is non-conformity and not literally asking why people don't just use Zoom or discord?
because zoom and discord has nothing in line with the experience of the anonymous radio signal being tuned in by anonymous listeners. that's the one true thing that separates a OTA broadcast vs even the pirate streaming radio signal i proposed. once it's networked, logs are every where. sure, the broadcaster can turn off logging blah blah, but that's still not the same as tuning in OTA.
social platforms involve invites, permission to join, etc. how that even closely relates is still beyond me and maybe beyond your vaulted abstract thinking skills as well?
This was my point (though apparently I've expressed it in a non-obvious way): even for the the same result (having a voice conversation with someone distant, or listening to some rock music selected by a DJ), the method (a 40 meter ham rag chew instead of a Zoom call, or an AM broadcast band transmission instead of a shoutcast station) matters and colors the experience.
yeah, comparing a social chat platform to an potentially anonymous streaming environment is so not even the same thing i had no way of connecting your dots.
I'm not sure why you are so reluctant to see other points of view or to entertain the fact that you might be missing something that other people are not, but I won't push it.
well, i'm really not sure what this point is that you're harping on, but whatevs.
i'm arguing that the experience of enjoying pirate radio is not solely tied to tuning in a signal via airwaves. pirate radio use airwaves as that's the signal that was available at the time to them. you could be at your house, in your car, or wherever and listen to it. the "it" was the thing though. it was non-rules conforming, it was whatever it wanted to be. people would call each other up, and "tune-in" to the same signal if they were in the same area. (it just so happens at that time, if you were calling someone, you were probably in their area.) now, radio isn't as widely used. instead, we can share the same signal via internet radios. you can still "call" a friend to have a shared experience listening to the same signal at the same time. only now, you are not limited in broadcast range nor local call range. it can be global. tell me what pirate operator would not have accepted a global reach vs whatever their transmitters could reach.
how's that for entertaining a thought exercise? can you keep up, or do you need a minute to stretch and get warmed up still?
Typically, if someone was to use the phrase "I have no idea what the point is" is pretty good context clue that I might need to reiterate what the point really is.
So, let me ask for it point blank...what is the point you are wanting to make that I have entirely missed?
You have already had at least three people try to explain it to you, and you railroaded over them with your manic discourse without even attempting to parse what they wrote. The grandparent is speaking of using the radio bands for a purpose which may have no real audience or utility, but is used because the medium itself is interesting. You are trying to pivet to 'just use the internet' like someone would say to a film lover going to see a classic film in the cinema 'why not watch it on blu-ray'. If you don't get that people like to do things because they are interested in the experience of the medium then I am not sure what else to write. Have a pleasant day.
I'm sorry for being so hard on you yesterday. Your glib tone struck me as condescending and the snarky quip about stretching and 'vaulted analytical whatever' had me really disliking you. I hope that wasn't your intention and if that is the case then I apologize.
I honestly wasn't trying to be combative with the initial reply about concrete thinking. It was so completely obvious to me that the other responder and I were talking about something completely different than you were and it seemed logical that you might be thinking using a different process than everyone else.
