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       Resist the dazzling spectacle of mainstream social and news media.
       
       __ __ __
       \ V  V / elcome to rawtext.club, an experimental community for
        \_/\_/  socializing, digital skill building, and collaboration
                through the medium of the GNU/Linux shell.
       
       RTC is a non-profit, do-it-yourself social network that uses a
       smaller, simpler, user-built toolkit. We are proudly the polar
       opposite of the big, exploitative, corporate-owned social media
       mega-sites. Not cool. Not easy. Not big. rawtext.club is what you
       make it. The point is that you can do a LOT using very minimal
       resources by stringing together command line tricks on a Linux
       system.
       
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       __ ____ _| |_  _ ___ __(_)
       \ V / _` | | || / -_|_-/_ 
        \_/\__,_|_|\_,_\___/__(_)
       
       OFF THE WEB. While users can publish webpages and gopher content
       here, the life of the party is on the command line where you
       control who sees your content and how long your content lives.
       Nothing is indexed by search engines on the command line, so it's
       more like socializing with other humans offline.
       
       DO-IT-YOURSELF. The GNU/Linux environment makes it easy to build
       your own tools, and many of the tools for social interaction on
       rawtext.club are made by users here or from other similar systems.
       It's more fun when you can access and tinker with the source code.
       
       RESOURCE MINIMALISM. rawtext.club runs on a tiny cloud-based VPS
       with 1 GB of memory and a 25 GB disk. A desktop with these specs
       would choke on many modern websites, but we're able to run a whole
       digital social club off it because we use text-based interfaces.
       
       NON-PROFIT. No membership fee, no ads, and nobody tracking your
       online movements to sell data about you. Rather, you pay to be a
       member of rawtext.club by being an active community member -- make
       neat things, test out what others have made, and teach others what
       you know. You can't buy a community like this. Read RTC's social
       contract statement[1] for further explanation of why this is
       important to us.
       
       ASYNCHRONOUS. Unlike IRC and other instant message tools, much of
       the interaction on rawtext.club is asynchronous. Check out what
       others are doing or saying, think about it a while, and respond
       when you want to. No rush. This is the slow[2] social network after
       all.
       
       [1] gopher://rawtext.club/0/social_contract
       [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
       
       
       Direct questions, comments, smart remarks or to: admin AT
       rawtext.club
       
       To join, send an email to cmccabe AT rawtext.club with a note that
       you read this on gopher, and a brief line about why you want to
       join.
       
       
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