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Welcome to the hole in MHCat Space. This server is part of the | |
smolnet, an effort to re-decentralize the Internet, taking | |
advantage of this historical moment of fragmentation and the | |
fantastic job the Melon Tusk is doing of decloaking the social | |
networks. | |
Files hosted here: | |
Captain's Log - liphe phlog. | |
Captain's Log - separate files. | |
The PNut Files - missives from my dad to my first born. | |
The smolnet, or the Internet's basement as it's also known, is | |
a slow time phenomenon. The idea that transacting as quickly as | |
possible, "moving fast and breaking things", is a good thing is | |
finally being debunked. Low friction, highly scalable exchange | |
of ideas has proven to be anathematic to human survival. | |
Too much fluidity and too little friction produces populism at | |
light speed; communities are drained of uniqueness and become | |
homogenised. Local truths are lost, and global truth becomes | |
a function of the loudest voices or the dominant momentum. Like | |
a shit tsunami, any survivors come out smelling the same, and | |
not in a pleasant way. | |
The smolnet is playful and cozy. There's time to think. If you | |
want to chat, you can find ways, but not with 10,000 of your | |
closest friends. You can hack up fun toys, or stream some stories | |
to some like-minded nerds. | |
Text rules the smolnet. We don't reach directly in to tweak your | |
amygdala, or shoot dopamine darts at your eyeballs. You have to | |
do some work to internalize what is in front of you. What emerges | |
is better than counting likes, or impressions, or engagement, or | |
M&Ms or whatever. | |
There's a lot of good stuff to be found out there on the smolnet, | |
and gopher space is a great way to start. Here are some good | |
starting points: | |
The Super Dimensional Fortress | |
The Tildeverse | |
Floodgap | |
And here are my favourite gopher clients: | |
Phetch (console) | |
Elpher (emacs) | |
I have a phlog over at SDF, which might end up hosted here soon, | |
but until then: | |
MHCat Dances with Gophers | |
Here are some of my favourite holes and phlogs that I read | |
regularly: | |
agk | |
screwtape at tilde.institute | |
screwtape at sdf.org | |
gef | |
christyotwisty | |
stug | |
rbigelo | |
ldbeth | |
usagi | |
This server: | |
server time....: Fri May 3 07:06:14 PM UTC 2024 | |
server uptime..: 114 days | |
server version.: Gophernicus/3.1.1 "Dungeon Edition" | |
server platform: Arch/6.6 x86_64 | |
description....: Default string HX90 | |
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