Woah this is extremely my kind of thing. I had installed Deedum before I finished reading your post. About a decade ago I had the thought “I bet there’s still a weird niche of Gopher users online” and was deeply disappointed to discover: no. This scratches that itch perfectly.

You’d think this kind of thing would be full of dry technical people talking about dry technical things about protocols and networking and nothing else…but it has attracted all kinds of people posting all kinds of things.

This is such strong Early Internet energy (by which I mean circa 1995). A bunch of nerds, yeah (hi!), but also a bunch of clever creative people recognizing that, hey, here is a new way to share things and connect with people. And that’s what gopher was, and what IRC was, and what listservs were, and what the web was, and that’s what cohost is, and that’s what the internet always has been and always will be. It’s not the technology and it’s not the money. It’s the people, doing people things.

Thanks for the blog post!

had never heard about this, super cool, thank you :3

thank you for posting this it makes me super happy :)

oh this is nifty. i think ill set up a capsule when i have time for it :3

def have thought about getting into this but im trying to spend LESS time on the computer, lol...

i rly like your point about how spaces like this show we'll still want to connect with each other on the internet even if the corporate structure falls out beneath us-- so many corpos have convinced ppl that all this shit is 'necessary' for the internet to exist, which is a rly obvious lie when u see stuff like this