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Manifestos "R" Us ----------------- Last March, user papa over a grex posted an "Antisocial Media Manifesto"[1], which was, unsurprisingly, well-received on gopher. More recently, seliph - the 32nd and final sundog of the Zaibatsu - shared a "Nomadic Manifesto"[2], with the subtitle "Survival on the Modern Internet". Surprisingly, papa and seliph both use exactly the same sentence at one point - "There is no permanent safe haven for us in this world". I don't know if seliph borrowed this from papa, if they have both independently quoted a third source, or if this is just a huge coincidence. Most recently, Republic sundog spring penned a "Small Internet Manifesto"[3], further cementing the phrase "Small Internet" which was coined in an earlier phlog post into the hearts and minds of refugees from the modern web. Clearly, we gopherites have a lot to get off our collective chests! Amusingly enough, I have had a manifesto.txt file languishing in my home directory on the Zaibatsu sincce November last year. It was supposed to be a screed on how public access unix systems "should" be run. Maybe I need to finish it up and put it on gopher. All the cool kids are doing it, after all. [1] gopher://grex.org:70/0/~papa/pgphlog/2018/alm-Antisocial_Media_Manifesto [2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~seliph/seliph/nomad-manifesto.txt [3] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-18__Small_Internet_Manifesto.txt