I'm on Lemmy
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I haven't had a reddit account in a
while, but I do read a number of
subreddits. Well, I guess I should say
that I *did* read those subreddits,
since I used gopherddit and Libreddit
to do it and they depend on the soon-
to-be-very-expensive API.[1]
Like a lot of people, when the reddit
moderators' strike started, I checked
out Lemmy. Yesterday I took the plunge
and actually signed up for an account
(it's @
[email protected]).
Hopefully I'll have enough willpower
to avoid doom-scrolling and enough
sense to be polite and helpful.
Planet Smolnet
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In the "sdfpubnix" Lemmy community
(for the uninitiated, a "community" is
like a subreddit), user thomask asked
if there was a community "where we can
dump links to our own published
[web, gopher and gemini] posts, without
trying to claim that it has any
quality or relevance to anything?"[2]
I liked the idea and suggested that he
create one. He did. It's called
"Planet Smolnet."[3]
I don't know what I think about
drawing attention to my gopher posts
-- or whether I want responses! It's
pretty quiet down in the burrows and I
do like that the smolnet is "slow" in
the sense of "slow food" -- meaning
that people appear to work on the
pieces they post rather than just
dashing off spontaneous responses.
Anyways, I'll throw a link to this
post on Planet Smolnet and see what
happens. If it generates actual
discussion, I may slink back into my
gopherhole and never do it again!
[1] The creator of gopherddit, gluon,
hopes to figure out an alternative way
to keep gopherddit functioning. See the
message at
gopher://gopherddit.com/
There is a similar effort underway
with Libreddit:
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/818
[2] "SDF blogs, gopherholes,
geminispaces,"
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/352111.
[3]
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/planetsmolnet.
