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~ The slow social network ~
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Resist the dazzling spectacle of mainstream social and news media.
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\ V V / elcome to rawtext.club, an experimental community for socializing,
\_/\_/ digital skill building, and collaboration through the medium of the
GNU/Linux shell.
RTC is a non-profit, do-it-yourself social network that uses a smaller,
simpler, user-built toolkit. We are proudly the polar opposite of the big,
exploitative, corporate-owned social media mega-sites. Not cool. Not easy. Not
big. rawtext.club is what you make it. The point is that you can do a LOT using
very minimal resources by stringing together command line tricks on a Linux
system.
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OFF THE WEB. While users can publish webpages and gopher content here, the life
of the party is on the command line where you control who sees your content and
how long your content lives. Nothing is indexed by search engines on the
command line, so it's more like socializing with other humans offline.
DO-IT-YOURSELF. The GNU/Linux environment makes it easy to build your own
tools, and many of the tools for social interaction on rawtext.club are made by
users here or from other similar systems. It's more fun when you can access and
tinker with the source code.
RESOURCE MINIMALISM. rawtext.club runs on a tiny cloud-based VPS with 1 GB of
memory and a 25 GB disk. A desktop with these specs would choke on many modern
websites, but we're able to run a whole digital social club off it because we
use text-based interfaces.
NON-PROFIT. No membership fee, no ads, and nobody tracking your online
movements to sell data about you. Rather, you pay to be a member of
rawtext.club by being an active community member -- make neat things, test out
what others have made, and teach others what you know. You can't buy a
community like this. Read RTC's social contract statement[1] for further
explanation of why this is important to us.
ASYNCHRONOUS. Unlike IRC and other instant message tools, much of the
interaction on rawtext.club is asynchronous. Check out what others are doing or
saying, think about it a while, and respond when you want to. No rush. This is
the slow social network after all.
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Current gemini users on rawtext.club:
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Direct questions, comments, smart remarks or to: admin AT rawtext.club
To join, go to the sign-up page.
gemini://rawtext.club/sign-up.gmi
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