On My Experience Within the Bitreich IRC:

Some people within this community seem to adhere to the supremacy of
Gopher to the exclusion of every other protocol, contradictory to
their Manifesto and "Plurality Project," which imply one use the best
tool/protocol for the job and to stop "moving towards designing
singularities." To put it simply, some of the people in the IRC and
associated with the project can be very hostile towards anyone who
even mentions Gemini.

I also question their focus on programmer-first software, which
comes with the implication that anyone who does not (or is unable
to) use a terminal or other programmer tools must be lesser. Finally,
while their manifesto suggests "Freedom of Language", it doesn't go
far enouugh to it's logical conclusion, which is "Freedom of
Protocols". Even the mention of Gemini will get you yelled at in the
IRC by @__20h__ for "spreading Gemini filth" as @__20h__ puts it.
20h is clearly propagating the idea that Gemini was created to
replace Gopher, which is not and was not the case, as was explicitly
described by Gemini's creator, solderpunk, who is still part of the
Gopher community. I always wondered why Solderpunk was so adamant
about Gemini not being a replacement for Gopher, and now I know why
- it's because some people have set themselves up against the Gemini
community when they could have been friends with the rest of the
Gopher and Gemini community.

In response to this exclusionary mindset, I will be promoting the
other alternative protocols to the Web and Gopher more, including
Nex, Spartan, Titan, Misfin, and Guppy. They all have their uses,
they all have unique attributes, and one is not better than any of
the others. AuraGem provides sites for all of these protocols, and
I intend to expand my Search Engine to crawl all of these protocols
as well. Gopher will be the last to be implemented because it is the
least imoprtant when some of these other protocols don't even have
one search engine available.

Remember, don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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nex://auragem.ddns.net/
spartan://auragem.ddns.net/

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