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2/12/2024
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Why is Project GophPort discontinued? 

Short answer: 
I realized to do the project would be a lot of work, and it 
would be a type of work I don't really want to do. 

Elaborate on this answer, please:
I have more than once given thought to limiting my information 
diet to only what is available libre (and in practice also 
gratis). It turns that the best way to do this is "get off the 
computer and go outside, nerd," but like almost everyone in the 
modern world, I tried to make wrap-around computing work for 
me... To those who only have hammers, all problems look like 
nails, and all of that.  

When I got into the smolWeb, I thought again of my libre 
experiment and conceived of limiting myself to Gemini, Gopher, 
and the libre web. The next step was wishing to contribute to 
making that happen for everyone else. And so project GophPort 
was briefly attempted. The last GophPort piece is from the very 
righteous dude, Ran Prieur. The other two are from the site "The 
Conversation," which is creative common pieces written by 
academics trying to make their writing part of the common 
discourse. Slogan: "Academic rigor, journalistic flair."

What I did *not* want was to just automatically transfer every 
piece from The Conversation over. The website for The 
Conversation works great using Lynx. 

https://theconversation.com/us/

So if you just want to make the reading there part of a plain 
text internet, you can do that it that way. The real value I 
could provide would be in curating the material. And that is 
where the whole thing fell apart -- I don't want to keep up with 
the curation, as that would make reading into a kind of job.
And I have found my more important to get off the computer and 
go do something. 

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