Manifestos "R" Us
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Last March, user papa over a grex posted an "Antisocial Media
Manifesto"[1], which was, unsurprisingly, well-received on gopher.

More recently, seliph - the 32nd and final sundog of the Zaibatsu -
shared a "Nomadic Manifesto"[2], with the subtitle "Survival on the
Modern Internet".  Surprisingly, papa and seliph both use exactly the
same sentence at one point - "There is no permanent safe haven for us
in this world".  I don't know if seliph borrowed this from papa, if
they have both independently quoted a third source, or if this is just
a huge coincidence.

Most recently, Republic sundog spring penned a "Small Internet
Manifesto"[3], further cementing the phrase "Small Internet" which was
coined in an earlier phlog post into the hearts and minds of refugees
from the modern web.

Clearly, we gopherites have a lot to get off our collective chests!
Amusingly enough, I have had a manifesto.txt file languishing in my
home directory on the Zaibatsu sincce November last year.  It was
supposed to be a screed on how public access unix systems "should" be
run. Maybe I need to finish it up and put it on gopher.  All the cool
kids are doing it, after all.

[1] gopher://grex.org:70/0/~papa/pgphlog/2018/alm-Antisocial_Media_Manifesto
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~seliph/seliph/nomad-manifesto.txt
[3] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-18__Small_Internet_Manifesto.txt

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