I never used reddit. I had seen it in search results (some
reddit-blackout research said most of the value of Alphabet Corp
search was just indexing reddit discussions).
Happily! reddit has gone the way of the birdsite. And there is a
freedom-respecting federating web forum software named lemmy. Our
SDF is providing an instance of it.
SDF.org has a long (longer than I've been alive) history and
explicitly facilitates blind users, whom Reddit Corporation have
explicitly attacked for being unprofitable.
Sometimes it would be nice to have short, semi-permanent,
fast-paced discussions with too many people to keep up with the
phlogs of, on the topic of one of the phlogs. Given widespread
success and de facto standard of the lemmy forum model, I submit
that we should use lemmy as a de facto comment section on
everyone's phlog.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/gopher
I created it; my thinking is every thread represents one
significant gopher directory (or gopher-like directory-like) having
1. the gopher address like
gopher://gopher.club/1/users/screwtape
2. a corresponding lemmy address (well, if you're already there)
3. a web proxy link from floodgap or tildeverse or your own
personal one.
Then any number of response trees, which sorted in time-reversed
order probably correspond to a time-reversed order phlog.
This lets us have many-person short, semi-permanent discussions
attached to a given gopherhole.
Since I made the lemmy, my rule is that I will defer to and
facilitate the author of the gopherhole on all of their decisions
about a thread (such as not having a thread), though in general
threads can be started by non-authors.
Ancillarily to this, I believe reddit had a lisp community that is
seeking a new home. Good job on them to break the proprietary
subscription habit. @SDF made this one already, but it needs some
life:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/lisp
PS:
Lemmy's web interface is well-browsable by links2, but javascript
is not supported by it.
