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I, too, wanted to delve into text-only/cli-centric methods of computing, but I ended up just beeing offline mostly, anyway. Text, e-mail, YouTube (via NewPipe on Android) and IRC (lately Revolution IRC from FDroid, soon back to Irssi in XFCE terminal), but other than that I am MIA from the Web. No beef or qualms or ill will towards anyone or anything, I just cannot have my brain melded into the shortform/micro-blogging world of Mastodon as it had been with Twitter (literally the same mental pathways break open, show themselves as the all too familiar avenues to nowhere that they are). Writing online is on/off as writing itself is on/off, for me. A conversation on IRC when it's relevant, or a comment to and fro, but even e-mail seems like an *upkeep* of communication anymore. Lo and wonderous was the world of "just" AOL chatrooms or/and AIM personal IM's (and also AIM personally curated chatrooms) back when, prior to me needing/wanting/knowing how to put anything online, pissing on Newgrounds and sometimes causing a hellacious stir there in the forums as the trool-like teenage fiend I was.

So now I lurk, always. YouTube, IRC, Midnight.pub, Read.write.as, Feedbin for the litany of blogs and Mastodon accts I follow (no need or want to take action on any of it - just read what is there).

CLI-only? Yes, I will go with Newsboat in time. Self-host it. Possibly even YewTube, who knows. For now just *using* the Web is alright with me.

Stay good, Inq

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~inquiry wrote:

> For now just *using* the Web is alright with me.

Bingo, where for me "using" includes crafting toolage so access feels like falling off a log the way I more enjoy succumbing to the gravity.

> Stay good, Inq

You too, and thank you sir!