• doc
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        Same. Assumed tildes from just the title.

    • @DarthFrodo
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      Seems like they haven’t gained traction since the reddit exodus. I wonder how the other alternatives are doing. Lemmy has a decent amount of activity at least, although I still wish more people would use it.

      • @hightrix
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        42 months ago

        Unfortunately, it was originally seeded with people from the meta mod community in Reddit and so they brought all that with them.

        Some discussions are awesome, but anything remotely controversial is a pure echo chamber and you’ll get shouted down if you dissent.

  • @[email protected]
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    The resurgence of a lot of pre-web protocols is interesting, but I’m not entirely sure it’s going to be a sticky thing beyond a novelty.

    Also 100% agree with the first comment that on an article about the small web half the content is YouTube videos being hilariously tone-deaf ironic. If only there were some other method of sharing videos with people. Perhaps some sort of tube that’s peer-to-peer? A PeerTube, if you will.

    • @solrize
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      312 months ago

      If only there was a way to communicate without videos. The Mesopotamians had something like that but the technology was unfortunately lost.

      • @HC4L
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        162 months ago

        While I hate the videofication of everything as much as the next person. Looking at a regular website these days is even worse than YouTube with ads… Cookies bro? You want to subscribe? Can we send you browser messages?? Here are 10 ads that move the text around that you were just reading…

    • mesamuneOP
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      42 months ago

      They have videos on peertube if I recall.

    • @vanderbilt
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      I’m loving the lore of the “tildeverse”, check out https://cosmic.voyage/ starting with the log entries. Feels like Futurama meets Unix Surrealism.

  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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    102 months ago

    Gopher. Now that’s a long time since I heard that name.

    • @Valmond
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      Tildeverse.org seems like it got a Lemmy hug if death. I can’t access it anyways.

    • @[email protected]
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      I never heard about the tildeverse before, sounds really interesting. How does one choose which tilde to join, though? It seems to me like only cosmic.voyage has a specific theme, while the rest only differ in the OS running on the machine. Or are tildes just there to host your account, while all the interactions are done via irc?

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    Here’s my old homepage hosted on a tilde on the Gemini protocol

    https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/tilde.team/~smokey/

    Here’s my new homepage hosted on a different tilde I just got up and running yesterday since the old tilde maintainer stopped communication a few months ago

    https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/envs.net/~smokey/

    The new one is bare bones right now I will work on moving over some of the better logs and articles. I talk about it more in the log I wrote up last night

    https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/envs.net/~smokey/logs/2024-09-16-im-back.gmi

    Learn more about envs.net tilde

  • @hahattpro
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    62 months ago

    Interesting. Please click the link, it worth your time

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    On a related note, I host the Guardian to gopherspace here: gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/1/the-guardian

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    If one’s interest isn’t in learning about Linux, host anything, do storytelling, run a radio station, or play Minecraft, there’s pretty much nothing to do there. 🤷‍♂

    • adr1an
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      You just mentioned what really is available nowadays. If you could mention an example of a “web interest” that’s not covered, perhaps someone could start it on the tildeverse…

      • @[email protected]
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        Well, from my POV, things that interest me online are Typescript, React, Html, Css topics, news, tutorials. I’m interested in hosting as well, and host websites for myself and inner family, but I don’t wanna go back to plain text. 🤷‍♂

        Topics like browsers, smartphones, pc hardware, musical instruments, virtual reality, crypto.

        Music production, FL Studio, and related music hardware.

        So, definitely news and reviews from these fields - all that is available from regular internet, but if I could get that from other sources, alternative corners of the internet that respect user privacy, I would.