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2018-03-06
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ARNING: This post is quite meta, so if you don't like reading such
hings, feel free to skip this. It is not important at all...
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ome nice folks on the gophersphere seem to have picked up my last
ost[0] about 'What makes gopher special' for me. My thanks go to
vothe[2] and jynx[3] for their thoughtful additions. We seem to
ave an overlap in our observations which is reassuring for me. I
m not that too far off :)
omasino[1] takes the arguments a step further in the direction of
ommunity which leads me to this response. I have recently read an
rticle by David Chapman written in 2015: 'Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths
n subculture evolution'[4]. That's quite a mouthful but apart
rom the sociopath twist in that story it shows that communities
ave a life cycle. They start out small and when they grow, their
stablished core values are up for a test.
e have seen this elsewhere when mastodon became popular, driving
ut quite a bit of the rich subculture of LBGT people that choose
his platform as their interaction place. I do think though that
opher will stay as it is for a long time. This is mostly due to 2
easons.
s tomasino wrote the 'technology' used for gopher holes is quite
ow tech compared to other monstrosities these days. But -- I add
- is so far off the mainstream interaction model that there is
o 'easy' switching from another platform. You just don't give up
our blog for a gopher site because you think that's right. (Well
seem to, but that's just me)
here is really no incentive for any (capitalist or otherwise)
xploitative strategy. There is nothing to be gained by using gopher
part from the stated reasons previously. And technical simplicity
eems a lofty goal everyone touts about but rarely implements at
ork.
his seems to be the healthiest defense for the community if it
ver needs one.
hat and respect for your fellow writers, but I take that as a
iven.
his all does not seem too thoughtful to me now as I read it again,
ut I will leave this with you anyway.
heers!
__References________________________________________________________
0]: gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/0/ckeen/phlog/2018-03-05-What-makes-gopher-s…
1]: gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/tomasino/phlog/20180305-what-makes-gopher-speci…
2]: gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/kvothe/phlog/2018/03/05-special-gopher
3]: gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jynx/dat/20180305.post
4]: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
