best of the /de\cent||ral\ized/ web? ^¥^

~wolfinthewoods

i've enjoted the past six months on gemini

~t r e m e n d o u s l y~

it's been a truly cathartic online experience

i've got to the point where i'm mostly hanging

around gemini somewhere or other

i've also pocked my head into the gopher hole

as well, meaning to explore there more too

lately i've gotten more and more fed up with

the mainstream when it comes to

content

reading much more offline

zines, scrawlings in bathroom stalls and

the side of brick walls

it got me thinking to dig deeper into

the all things decentralized

so...

what are some excellent nooks and crannies

you guys have found?

inquiry just pointed me to

https://void.si3t.ch/

which fits into this ethos great

just little off-kilter places

the places that defy convention

give me those

sweeet, sweet links

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

i enjoyed gemini for a season

but after not too long realized

protocol doesn't matter as much

as i initially hoped it would

participants either "do it for me"

or they don't

is the best - not to mention safest - summary

~kirk781 wrote (thread):

I think https://bus-stop.net/ also has a similar premise like that site.

~inquiry wrote:

I don't mind playing ennui police.

Just wish there were more coppers....

~tffb wrote (thread):

something that made a big impression on me in 2018 or so, was a post on Write.as called Tunneling For Text by a guy who called himself Slackz. Blog is long gone, but I dug up the entry on Wayback Machine if you have an e-mail I can send it to in plaintext. I don't want to re-post it online, even if I'd be giving him credit (privacy matters)

Talking about rediscovering Jabber, IRC, Gopher, etc, and reclaiming personal time/space on the Web. Really motivating article, and I think that is what kicked off the interest I had (still have) in decentralized services, as well as older protocols, etc.

My e-mail is in my profile if you want to send first e-mail.

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