Gopher and social networks
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As many people noticed there has been influx of Mastodon users because
they have been leaving some other so called social network. This has
several consequences. Some of them are positive and some of them
negative.
I have been feeling a bit uncomfortable on the Mastodon. My usual
filters (which I use to select the stuff I am interested in -
#retrocomputing, #cycling and so on) don't work well and many new
people puts irrelevant stuff everywhere.
There are a few possible solution. I will see.
But it seems that I am not the only one which has such feeling. There
is noticeable revival in gopher activity ([1], [2], for example ).
I should be more active here, too. I think I put too much
cycling-related stuff here but it is an unfortunate effect of current
times. I am spending too much time in front of computer at work so I
often have no motivation to look to the computer screen in my free
time.
At least I revived the basic set of my Palm Pilots (the TRGpro and the
IIIx) and I am infrequently using the PalmPix camera to take some
low-quality pictures. I still use my PSION Organiser as my bedside
computer. But it mostly means that is serves just as the alarm clock
:-( And sometimes - for example just now - I use my SGI workstation.
Yhis is actually quite terrmible story as most of my SGI are out of
service (mostly for read internal batteries; however, the Indigo2 has
anonther - not yet identified - problem). SO at the moment I only have
the Indigo R4000 and the O2 in working condition. Both of them have
been upgraded and now they have sockets for commonly available
batteries instead of these hard to find Dallas/Tadiran ones. I ahve to
modify the Indigo R3000, too.
References:
[1]
gopher://i-logout.cz
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/guofu/phlog
