I recall learning about it around the time i started to learn Linux, when the pandamic first appeared. The introductory text/blog, or whatever it was, really resonated with me. I recall I kept reading and growing more and more excited and thinking I finally found a place on the internet that had people who thought like me, who hated the ad-choked, bot-death, politically-emotional wasteland and reality show the internet became.

I installed a client or three and …nothing. I couldn’t find anything. I didn’t know what to look for, I’m not sure there even was a search or a way to know what content there was, beyond curated lists of page titles.

I tried learning how to make my own page and must have gotten confused or distracted and moved on.

I go back and try again every year or so but I think I lack something that helps me get into it more.

Maybe I need another user to befriend, a twin so to speak, hence the name of the protocol. Maybe I need a better internet connection (I’m poor, speed tops out at ~300kb/s, average is ~100kb/s). Maybe I just need another year or two.