Small protocols don't (?) disturb the mainstream internet in any meaningful way, but they simply deserve an opportunity to "be". They'll never be "big" these days (or, maybe in the scifi-scenario of complete societal collapse?). The content might, indeed, be a from-geek-to-geek thing these days, but they're a lovely sign of cultural richness, different thinking patterns etc.
People stick to a social network, and when they move is because they have big complaints about their previous home. If they didn’t, they would never have moved at all.
That’s probably the biggest lesson of the Web 2.0 era that everybody that tried to create a new social network had to learn.
I tried to focus on keeping with the Apple HIG from the 1990s, while also making it more aligned with modern browser principles.
What a blast from the past to see SDF.org make it to HN in 2026. Proud grandpa. lol.
unset LESSOPEN
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
gemini://gemi.dev it's nice.
You can set an HTTPS proxy for it and read news sites and blogs over Gemini.
Just set
stargate.gemi.dev:1994
For the terminal guys, there's Telescope and it can use HTTP proxies as well. Read the man page.
I recently built a Gemini client for people who like GUI's more than TUI's, and want a native macOS app
FWIW, the same applies to gemini protocol.