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● Gemini Links 08/05/2023: New Joiners and Social Control Media Fatigue

Posted in News Roundup at 10:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

=> ↺ 🔤SpellBinding: ADHIMSP Wordo: TUBBY

Technical

=> ↺ Printing Random Complementary Shapes

• Having built the simplest possible 3D model generator I soon discovered surprising complexity.

=> ↺ fonts more likes

• so i have bought some fonts, of course i would! i like to use these when i can.

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ the post-social tech party has more attendees than you think

• I use IRC a lot, in the #ctrl-c chat (via tilde.chat) and many are off social media. All “but” Mastodon, most of them. Many a folk seem to have left socials in the past couple of years – be it due to self-imposed abstinence because of COVID (“control yourself!”) or because they knew/found a way to work at/from home and also on a computer w/o the constant checking/refreshing of social media, et al – a bunch of possible reasons for it. But when I left in late-2019, it was seemingly “no end in sight” for nearly *every. single. person I knew online and offline. Hell, e-mail exchanges were like pulling teeth sometimes.

=> ↺ Keeping off the network grass

• Yes, you read that right. It’s supposed to rain, so I can’t see walking to/from an eatery in the vicinity of the courthouse. And I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but don’t much have the opportunity to eat them because leftovers are typically in the queue ahead of them.

• [...]

• I gotta say, if Gemini is fostering “community” somewhere, it’s somewhere I’ve not yet found. To me it seems vastly people staying in their own lane. I mean, me too, for the most part. But attempts to sow seeds of interaction have anything but taken root.

=> ↺ Introductions

• I am a long time lurker. I often sit in that small corner near the fireplace, over there, looking around in silence.

• I got rid of most of my social media accounts a few years ago, and I am pretty much only looking at content in the small web at this point, or in the fediverse.

=> ↺ Hello World!

• Obligatory “Hello World” first post.

• It’s 5 am over here. I woke up at 4 and decided it was a good time to make a smol.pub account and link it to my domain.

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