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

A. G. Madi viper7129 at gmail.com

Mon Jun 7 16:57:56 BST 2021

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There's a nice little community over at Station.gemini://station.martinrue.com/

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:55 Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com>wrote:

I have sent the past week sorting through old material both from my

aborted attempt 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. Maybe

it's just me, but I get all these mail notifications and 'im genuinely

disinterested in most of these why am I here.' which is an inverse of how I

am with forums. Just sorta mentally sort out what ai don't care about and

focus 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 list

format with an included mailing list? I wouldn't bother with the list

format.

* BBS; see I like BBS:s, but they suffer similar problems to gopher in

that technically thee is still development, but it all has this problem of

feeling archaic. Maybe a client can fix that, but it is a very, in my

enthusiast 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 low

barrier to starting up and keeping the ball rolling.

I don't even know if this post will get any traction or if I am

overthinking things, but it would be nice tohave a way to have low

bandwidth communities. However I don't want that feature set as part of

Gemini. Just... Something Gemini like that focuses on this need....

Assuming it doesn't already exist.

I have no idea what I am doing.

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