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With lots of discussions about big tech, privacy and data protection there has been discussions on the Social Web, about using protocols such as Gopher and related software.

We are also seeing attacks on science from the USA with departments cut, and information on a range of issues; such as DEI, Climate Science, Medical Science being removed, risking this being lost forever.

The Gopher protocol (/ˈɡoʊfər/ ⓘ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. [1]

There are still some servers out there, some are new, and offer services such as HackerNews, Project Gutenberg and others. Thanks to Anthk @anthk@paquita.masto.host who has made a list of some of these Gopher servers

Does the web allow you to do this at 2.7 KBPS?

• Gutenberg gopher://gopher.icu/7/gutenberg
• Internet Archive gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
• Huge portal gopher://magical.fish
• News, blog and more gopher://1436.ninja
• Reddit gopher://gopherddit.com
• HN gopher://hngopher.com
• Google Maps (text) gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir
• Podcasts: gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod Blogs:
• gopher://sdf.org
• Weather (finger):
• gopher://graph.no:79/0/London

There are still clients software out there, and yeah you can all this with good old plain text.

apt search gopher

Links

1. Wikipedia – Gopher Protocol

DIY Gopher Server

• How to set up gopher on a raspberry pi
• More Gopher Info
• Master Linux service management on System V and systemd

Note the tutorial above on how to set up gopher on a Raspberry Pi, appears to be using system V, (init.d system I think) hence I have included the 3rd link which covers how to manage services on both. The 2nd link should help with setting up the actual gopher files.

I tried to install the software mentioned in the first link above and there seems to be a problem with this in my raspberry pi, so I removed this and have installed gophernicus instead.

22/4/2025

If all else fails then vern.cc members get gopher as one of the services. So I will look at a hosted service.

• Vern.cc
  • vern.cc Matrix

21/4/2025

Had issues with gophernicus as I am not sure where the config file is.

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I found this on the Fediverse last year, so am sharing again as it was originally shared on the Devon & Cornwall Linux user group website. 

• https://podsearch.com/

As the name suggests this allows you to search for a pod cast in a good range of topics.

Libre Lounge is another podcast that has covered different aspects of the Fediverse, this includes some of the more technical aspects including a multipart discussion on Activity Pub.   Activity pub is one of the protocols that allows posts to be federated across the network.

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