Re: [Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

Also, obligatory mention for the IRC channel, #gemini at irc.tilde.chat.

On 07/06/2021 16:57, A. G. Madi wrote:
> There's a nice little community over at Station.
> gemini://station.martinrue.com/ <http://station.martinrue.com/>
> 
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:55 Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com 
<mailto:singletona082@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have sent the past week sorting through old material both from
>     my aborted attempt to gopher as well as a selection of old
>     blogspot posts I had made, as well as other general 'ehstbdo I
>     want to migrate over' material.
> 
>     Through that whole time I peek in at Twitter, diffrent discourse
>     forums, older pho based forums (most notesbly brass goggles.) And
>     on and on..
> 
>     Which has left me pondering how 'we' would handle communities, or
>     even if 'we' should.
> 
>     There is as far as I am aware, without going to http/s:
> 
>     * Mailing lists. Which are nice enough, but it just feels
>     cluttered. Maybe it's just me, but I get all these mail
>     notifications and 'im genuinely disinterested in most of these why
>     am I here.' which is an inverse of how I am with forums. Just
>     sorta mentally sort out what ai don't care about and focus on what
>     I want. Maybe it's something on my end. Or is 'me' specific, but
>     if the Gemini discussions primarily happened on a non mailing list
>     format with an included mailing list? I wouldn't bother with the
>     list format.
> 
>     * BBS; see I like BBS:s, but they suffer similar problems to
>     gopher in that technically thee is still development, but it all
>     has this problem of feeling archaic. Maybe a client can fix that,
>     but it is a very, in my enthusiast it non technical opinion,
>     kindof intimidating to try starting.  I like how BBS's work, but
>     there appears to be a not High but not low barrier to starting up
>     and keeping the ball rolling.
> 
>     I don't even know if this post will get any traction or if I am
>     overthinking things, but it would be nice tohave a way to have low
>     bandwidth communities. However I don't want that feature set as
>     part of Gemini. Just... Something Gemini like that focuses on this
>     need.... Assuming it doesn't already exist.
> 
>     I have no idea what I am doing.
>