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

Alan gemini at bunburya.eu

Mon Jun 7 17:29:41 BST 2021

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Also, obligatory mention for the IRC channel, #gemini at irc.tilde.chat.

On 07/06/2021 16:57, A. G. Madi wrote:

There's a nice little community over at Station.

gemini://station.martinrue.com/ <http://station.martinrue.com/>

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