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- I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I'll talk a bit about my membership
- and about Bitreich itself.
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- Check out Bitreich's gopherhole
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- I really admire the Bitreich group for being such a powerful and vocal,
- noticeable force for the Gopher Protocol in the modern era. I think I ran into
- their gopherhole randomly while surfing gopherspace. The Bitreich group carries
- a lot of the whimsy and not-taking-itself-too-seriously that you find surfing
- Gopherspace. For example, look at this joke about the excesses of the web made
- by *20h* on a Debian mailing list:
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- G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML
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- Of course, Bitreich has their own manifesto. Here's a quip:
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- > We form a movement to improve our daily software life. Software has to not
- > misbehave, it has to follow our rules, it has to be reusable, it has to be
- > easily maintainable, it has to provide its recompilable source and it has to
- > be easily understandable.
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- Bitreich Manifesto
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- 20h, the main person behind Bitreich, is a member of suckless.org
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- I had been helping out tangentially by working on my Whisper Radio project,
- because they also had their own radio service. I also have been working on
- uncovering history regarding the Gopher Protocol and working on a lot of Gopher
- software.
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- You can see my previous Halloween post about Bitreich
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- Official Bitreich announcement:
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- > # 2025-03-27 18:29:56.532851 UTC (+0000)
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- > Welcome someodd as new Bitreich member!
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- > The council has decided to make someodd a new member of Bitreich. He has
- > contributed to Bitreich by being a burning fighter for gopher and simplicity.
- > He works on radio, gopher software and did ground breaking research into
- > gopher history. There is much to come for the whole of the community.
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- > Welcome!
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- > Sincerely yours,
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- > 20h Chief Community Manager (CCM)
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- They gave me an SSH account which has some very interesting/fun services. For
- example, they have their own gopher service:
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- My Bitreich gopherhole
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- I'm very honored and happy to be an official member. I really admire the
- community vibes and their work.
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