I'm on Lemmy
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I haven't had a reddit account in a 
while, but I do read a number of 
subreddits. Well, I guess I should say 
that I *did* read those subreddits, 
since I used gopherddit and Libreddit 
to do it and they depend on the soon- 
to-be-very-expensive API.[1]

Like a lot of people, when the reddit 
moderators' strike started, I checked 
out Lemmy. Yesterday I took the plunge 
and actually signed up for an account 
(it's @visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org). 

Hopefully I'll have enough willpower 
to avoid doom-scrolling and enough 
sense to be polite and helpful.


Planet Smolnet
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In the "sdfpubnix" Lemmy community 
(for the uninitiated, a "community" is 
like a subreddit), user thomask asked 
if there was a community "where we can 
dump links to our own published 
[web, gopher and gemini] posts, without 
trying to claim that it has any 
quality or relevance to anything?"[2] 
I liked the idea and suggested that he 
create one. He did. It's called 
"Planet Smolnet."[3]

I don't know what I think about 
drawing attention to my gopher posts 
-- or whether I want responses! It's 
pretty quiet down in the burrows and I 
do like that the smolnet is "slow" in 
the sense of "slow food" -- meaning 
that people appear to work on the 
pieces they post rather than just 
dashing off spontaneous responses.

Anyways, I'll throw a link to this 
post on Planet Smolnet and see what 
happens. If it generates actual 
discussion, I may slink back into my 
gopherhole and never do it again!


[1] The creator of gopherddit, gluon, 
hopes to figure out an alternative way 
to keep gopherddit functioning. See the 
message at gopher://gopherddit.com/

There is a similar effort underway 
with Libreddit: 
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/818

[2] "SDF blogs, gopherholes, 
geminispaces," https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/352111.

[3] https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/planetsmolnet.