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I've wanted to make something like this, and I'm happy to see its here because implementing a client looks like a lot of fun.

Here is why I want a simpler web: The NewYorkTimes wont be there! Neither will google or facebook or shopify or influencers or clickbait even! I want a web that is hard to make money from. Something that doesn't support fingerprinting and ad tracking, where my interests aren't at odds with the "platforms".

I want a place where people are posting ideas and creations and info and software and labors of love for free, with weird one-off communities that don't get embroiled in national censorship debates.

I might even want the relatively high barrier to entry, the fact that other people there would be looking for the same thing instead of being directed there by browser defaults and content portals.



That sounds like an online utopia, almost like the feeling of discovering the joy of the internet again. I want that too.


That is how I felt when I discovered gopher and then went on to work on gemini. I can wholeheartedly recommend both communities.




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