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I haven't done creative writing since I was in school, but I am thinking of starting to do some. At times I catch myself starting a story in my head but I never done anything with it because I know there are professional writers out there and there's so much technique and planning that goes into even a simple short story, that it feels like work. But here, I feel like I can just write something down, and if it's terrible, who cares? So, that being said, here is the section for my writing.
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I am a big proponent of online privacy. While it's debatable about the amount of privacy that the Gemini protocol provides, the key feature of Gemini is that there is no monetization of data collection on this platform, nor will there likely be any of any significance. I love this design feature and is one reason that I was drawn to this protocol in the first place.
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Mastodon is a Free (as in freedom) and Open Source (FOSS) microblogging platform that offers an alternative to the coporately owned and ad / data mining-supported platform called Twitter.
Searchable list of Mastodon instances to join
Lemmy is a Free (as in freedom) and Open Source (FOSS) alternative to Reddit
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If you're on Gemini, then chances are you know what a Tilde is - a publicly shared Unix-like system that folks can log into for personal projects, socialization and blogging / writing. I personally remember these as "pubnixes" from back in the day, and I'm not really sure what qualifies one as a "tilde", but I can say that they are definitely an organized grouping of pubnixes, sharing a few common services. Depending on the server you choose there will be a different setup, meaning different pre-installed software, client rules, and overall culture of the Tilde's citizens.
I personally like these tildes because they are great text-only, command-line communities, free of corporate influence and ovesight. I personally am on tilde.club and like it there, and I often randomly surf the gemini capsules of the members there. Sometimes I find a good capsule that I bookmark, sometimes there's not much there other than the standard boilerplate. You can check out the Phlogroll / Gemroll section for places I've stumbled across.
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