about a week ago i asked mastodon users who have non-commercial per-
sonal web logs to reply with the url, and to forward the request.
i love about gopher that we don't need to do so much as end-users to
keep up with the logs that interest us. sdf's phlog display is a par-
ticularly good example; new entries are pushed to the top of the list
and we don't struggle not to miss content.
so i thought it could be interesting to gather a lot of urls for
not-for-profit personal web logs with the hope that a method of org-
anizing them all in a manner similar to that of sdf's display or of
grex's 'the daily batch' would come to light. such a method as of yet
eludes me!
[forgive the mastodon lingo below if you do not use it. toots are log
entries, boosts are like retweets. bookmarks are called favorites and
comments are called replies]
now i have a list (the toot was boosted about 250 times with about 1
reply-including-url per boost) of a few hundred personal web logs. so
i wonder how i should go about organizing them! most of the users who
responded were interested (indicated via reply or favorite of a reply
requesting the following) in a list of the collected results at the
end of the toot's wane. it seems to be just about finished.
unfortunately i'm not quite sure how to organize the list. i could
simply supply a raw list of the urls next to header-defined titles.
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but i set out to strip away the bullshit of the www internet as it is
now and instead have simply a gopher-like list of stuff. it is not
necessarily true that everyone who has something interesting to say
also knows enough about using computers to have a gopherspace. and,
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that is really why i thought to do this. you don't need to be a 'pow-
er user' in order to figure out that twitter/facebook is stupid and
find mastodon. that makes the ostatus social federation a good place
for to look for people with unique and evolving voices without limit-
ing the search to let's say STEM individuals.
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at the very least i will publish the raw list. but i hope to come by
some better method of including these people who want to be part of
an internet that doesn't suck. it might be an opportunity to see that
worthwhile content does not go unnoticed by so many who would appre-
ciate it.
