Gopherspace: the tip is the best!
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There's been some discussion lately[1,2,3],
kicked off by jynx, about how the easily
visible phlogosphere is just the tip of the
gopher iceberg and that there's lots of
really good content out there on gopher
that's a little harder to find.

I want to play devil's advocate a bit and say
that, IMHO, the easily visible phlogosphere
is the best part of gopherspace!  Maybe
it's just me, but I find it very hard to get
excited about automatically-generated Gopher
frontends to web content, piles of binary
files for obsolete computer platforms, yet
another textfiles.org mirror, etc.
Gopher-exclusive and community-oriented
content being actively created for Gopher
gopher today is way, way more interesting
and exciting for me.  Floodgap, frankly, puts
me to sleep.

I'm *not* saying all that stuff is bad
content and that I wish it wasn't there.
It's not and I don't, it's valuable and I'm
glad it's out there.  I'm sure it's useful to
a lot of people.  But if that's all that
there was to Gopherspace, it'd be somewhere I
visited out of curiosity once every six
months or so.

It's possible that my above characterisation
of Gopherspace beyond the phlogosphere is out
of date.  If you think that's true, how about
sharing some links to the best non-phlog
content out there?

[1] gopher://leveck.us:70/0/Phlog/20190914.post
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~visiblink/phlog/20190918
[3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2019-09-20_wideGopherSpace.txt