i enjoyed gemini for a season
but after not too long realized
protocol doesn't matter as much
as i initially hoped it would
participants either "do it for me"
or they don't
is the best - not to mention safest - summary
i've enjoted the past six months on gemini
~t r e m e n d o u s l y~
it's been a truly cathartic online experience
i've got to the point where i'm mostly hanging
around gemini somewhere or other
i've also pocked my head into the gopher hole
as well, meaning to explore there more too
lately i've gotten more and more fed up with
the mainstream <anything> when it comes to
content
reading much more offline
zines, scrawlings in bathroom stalls and
the side of brick walls
it got me thinking to dig deeper into
the all things decentralized
so...
what are some excellent nooks and crannies
you guys have found?
inquiry just pointed me to
https://void.si3t.ch/
which fits into this ethos great
just little off-kilter places
the places that defy convention
give me those
sweeet, sweet links
;D
i enjoyed gemini for a season
but after not too long realized
protocol doesn't matter as much
as i initially hoped it would
participants either "do it for me"
or they don't
is the best - not to mention safest - summary
absolutely
it doesn't matter to me as long
as it is a small,
decentralized
communuity with a high signal to noise ratio
midnight club fits that criteria perfectly
i'd love to find similar communities in the future
something that made a big impression on me in 2018 or so, was a post on Write.as called Tunneling For Text by a guy who called himself Slackz. Blog is long gone, but I dug up the entry on Wayback Machine if you have an e-mail I can send it to in plaintext. I don't want to re-post it online, even if I'd be giving him credit (privacy matters)
Talking about rediscovering Jabber, IRC, Gopher, etc, and reclaiming personal time/space on the Web. Really motivating article, and I think that is what kicked off the interest I had (still have) in decentralized services, as well as older protocols, etc.
My e-mail is in my profile if you want to send first e-mail.
sounds awesome
i just sent you an email
go ahead and keep it too
i might have to send you
nuclear launch codes or
recipes for fudge brownies
sometime
always fun to kid about that online
safety is everywhere :D
i for one think we should just make the states
a massive bouncy castle
and everyone should be required to wear
helmets and hockey pads at ALL times