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.
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.
If only there was a way to communicate without videos. The Mesopotamians had something like that but the technology was unfortunately lost.
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…
Specifically check out tilde.town, it’s really cool. For more general information about the tildeverse, go to tildeverse.org
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
Gopher. Now that’s a long time since I heard that name.
