Saturday, December 30th, 2017

	Replies in gopherspace
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I'd  like to  finish this year with a  thought that was on my mind for
quite a  long   time.  People  around  gopherspace are time  from time
bringing the  topic about  replying to other  posts. I feel from those
posts that there is some common need to do this in more  automatic way
than just simply  writing what I think about someone else's post on my
own phlog and then (maybe) letting them know by e-mail.

I  don't think so. When the way to reply is too easy, too much  stupid
content  emerges and after a while  nobody cares. I am still active on
social  networks for  crowds of  ordinary  people (and by  that I mean
Facebook)  and I  can see it  daily.  People  create  vlog  replies to
comments on  posts of  people they even don't know and it gets  really
weird. You have to filter out quite a lot of content to keep  yourself
sane and not to  spend too  much time of  reading/watching  stuff that
brings you nothing.

That's why I like  gopherspace. There are ten to  twenty active people
and I enjoy texts of each and every one of them. I am not over-worried
that some easy way of  replying can destroy that, but I am not willing
to risk it - you never  really know until it's late. Less is sometimes
much much  more and in  this  post-information era it's more true than
ever before.

I wish  gopherspace in the  following year to remain the same as it is
right now. I've been here since 2011 and it never was better.