How to browse Gophersphere
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I've realized that  I'm listed on [Bongusta]. It's always  nice for an
author that somebody made a request  to put my Phlog there, despite it
isn't  very active  and  it  hasn't many  long  entries  in the  Phlog
section. Regardless  if I'm  on the  list or not,  Bongusta is  my top
Gopherhole   and   I'm   visiting   it   every   time   I'm   browsing
Gophersphere. And I started to think about how I browse Gophersphere.

Public aggregators
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Probably the first thing every  person starts browsing Gophersphere do
is  visit  public  aggregators.  There are  several  Gopherholes  like
Bongusta. I'm reading  [Gopher club] which is grouping  SDF Phlogs. By
being on a  public aggregator for a  while you will know  many of well
know nicks of Gophersphere.

Local aggregator
----------------

It's  handy to  have  a public  page  with links  sorted  by the  last
activity. So I'm using also a local aggregator built on [Comitium]. It
publishes on Gemini, but it's  covering Gopher pages also (without the
need for a  RSS feed, which is convenient). And  I'm visiting my local
aggregator  every day.  Sometimes  most entries  are repeated  against
public aggregators. But it's our aggregator!

Random pick
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Keeping a local aggregator is hard  work. Many Gopherholes come up and
many  go  quiet.   Sometimes  Gopherholes  of  well   know  nicks  are
insufficient or I got bored for a  while. Sometimes is good to [show 5
random gopher  servers]. It's  a quick  move to  go through  only five
Gopherholes and the reward can be  much greater than the time spent on
it.


~ [Bongusta]
  gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/

~ [Gopher club]
  gopher://gopher.club/

~ [Comitium]
  https://git.nytpu.com/comitium/about/

~ [Show 5 random gopher servers]
  gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup/rnd

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