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[Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

Andrew Singleton singletona082 at gmail.com

Mon Jun 7 16:54:57 BST 2021

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I have sent the past week sorting through old material both from my abortedattempt to gopher as well as a selection of old blogspot posts I had made,as well as other general 'ehstbdo I want to migrate over' material.

Through that whole time I peek in at Twitter, diffrent discourse forums,older pho based forums (most notesbly brass goggles.) And on and on..

Which has left me pondering how 'we' would handle communities, or even if'we' should.

There is as far as I am aware, without going to http/s:

Mailing lists. Which are nice enough, but it just feels cluttered. Maybeit's just me, but I get all these mail notifications and 'im genuinelydisinterested in most of these why am I here.' which is an inverse of how Iam with forums. Just sorta mentally sort out what ai don't care about andfocus on what I want. Maybe it's something on my end. Or is 'me' specific,but if the Gemini discussions primarily happened on a non mailing listformat with an included mailing list? I wouldn't bother with the listformat.

BBS; see I like BBS:s, but they suffer similar problems to gopher in thattechnically thee is still development, but it all has this problem offeeling archaic. Maybe a client can fix that, but it is a very, in myenthusiast it non technical opinion, kindof intimidating to try starting.I like how BBS's work, but there appears to be a not High but not lowbarrier to starting up and keeping the ball rolling.

I don't even know if this post will get any traction or if I amoverthinking things, but it would be nice tohave a way to have lowbandwidth communities. However I don't want that feature set as part ofGemini. Just... Something Gemini like that focuses on this need....Assuming it doesn't already exist.

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