Why Gopher in 2026?

▲ Why Gopher in 2026?(gopher.muffinlabs.com)

19 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 6 comments

▲ prologic an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I still think Gopher (the protocol that is) is still very relevant today. The beauty of it really is in its simplicity. Great to see that the library I wrote all those years ago is still being used :D

https://pkg.go.dev/git.mills.io/prologic/go-gopher

▲ vaporup an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

- https://geminiprotocol.net

- https://reticulum.network

	▲	anthk an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Gemini it's good on legacy machines and some clients can be really barebones (awk+less), and for some security there are clients written in Go. For awk+less, do yourself a favour. Run `unset LESSOPEN` or have it at ~/.profile. Reticulum it's unusable in 32 bit machines, it badly needs a Go port for nomadnet. On Gopher, well, lynx/sacc and maybe i2pd for some security and anonimity. As a start, there's: `gopher://magical.fish gopher://sdf.org` For gemini, `gemini://gemi.dev it's nice.` 'Lagrange' covers both gemini and gopher as a client. You can set an HTTPS proxy for it and read news sites and blogs over Gemini. Just set `stargate.gemi.dev:1994` As the HTTP proxy in the settings for Lagrange. For the terminal guys, there's Telescope and it can use HTTP proxies as well. Read the man page.

▲ jmclnx 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why ? It is not owned and controlled by billionaires. Plus no AI slop being spammed to gopher sites.

FWIW, the same applies to gemini protocol.

▲ II2II 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I love the idea of Gopher (even more so of Gemini), but the basic hurdle I run into is content. It feels like half of it is talking about how great gopher/gemini is, and the other half are deeply personal blogs. While the technology reflects the early days of the Internet, the content reflects the early days of blogging and social media (which came later). Rather than talking about things they are passionate about, they are talking about themselves.

	▲	warkdarrior 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe they are passionate about themselves??