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This started out as a "vacation project", in which I had to set up a gemini server and a working capsule. It hasn't been very hard to get it running, even if I don't know a lot about VPS, servers and... linux :) (please don't hack me)
I've been web logging for a very long time. My first blog was hosted in the old scenesp.org server, running a very lightweight software which was coded for me by a friend of mine. When scenesp went down, I spent some years writing here and there, just to finally land on blogspot's clutches. My blog is just... sitting in there. I post something from time to time and I rarely get any kind of feedback about its content, but I just keep going. The miracle is that Google hasn't closed that service yet!
These years have been harsh for the internet user: extreme social media dependence, discordification, cloudification, software as a service model, etc. (I may have invented some of those last words, sorry), and I've been feeling that I need to go back to something simpler, without that much noise or FOMO. I started using cohost, which is running great and has a striking background internet philosophy behind, but... I don't know: it's still social media: I wanted to try something different.
I started reading about the gemini protocol a couple of weeks ago, and really connected with the idea. I haven't ever used gopher myself, and I know that I could just stick to a simple plain-text, designless traditional site, but... I just love these unique spaces of the internet. I had to give it a try!
I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but that's not the point for me. I don't even know for how long the server will keep on working :) I just find some pleasure in writing about my own things, even if it's not in my mother language. Catharsis for me has nothing to do with the fact of being read or liked by others, and that's why I think there's no catharsis in social media.