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I'm on Lemmy ============ I haven't had a reddit account in a while, but I do read a number of subreddits. Well, I guess I should say that I *did* read those subreddits, since I used gopherddit and Libreddit to do it and they depend on the soon- to-be-very-expensive API.[1] Like a lot of people, when the reddit moderators' strike started, I checked out Lemmy. Yesterday I took the plunge and actually signed up for an account (it's @visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org). Hopefully I'll have enough willpower to avoid doom-scrolling and enough sense to be polite and helpful. Planet Smolnet ============== In the "sdfpubnix" Lemmy community (for the uninitiated, a "community" is like a subreddit), user thomask asked if there was a community "where we can dump links to our own published [web, gopher and gemini] posts, without trying to claim that it has any quality or relevance to anything?"[2] I liked the idea and suggested that he create one. He did. It's called "Planet Smolnet."[3] I don't know what I think about drawing attention to my gopher posts -- or whether I want responses! It's pretty quiet down in the burrows and I do like that the smolnet is "slow" in the sense of "slow food" -- meaning that people appear to work on the pieces they post rather than just dashing off spontaneous responses. Anyways, I'll throw a link to this post on Planet Smolnet and see what happens. If it generates actual discussion, I may slink back into my gopherhole and never do it again! [1] The creator of gopherddit, gluon, hopes to figure out an alternative way to keep gopherddit functioning. See the message at gopher://gopherddit.com/ There is a similar effort underway with Libreddit: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/818 [2] "SDF blogs, gopherholes, geminispaces," https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/352111. [3] https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/planetsmolnet.