I'm now a member of Bitreich!
        
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       I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I'll talk a bit about my membership
       and about Bitreich itself.
        
 (DIR) Check out Bitreich's gopherhole
        
       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:
        
 (HTM) G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML
        
       Of course, Bitreich has their own manifesto. Here's a quip:
        
       > 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.
        
 (TXT) Bitreich Manifesto
        
 (HTM) 20h, the main person behind Bitreich, is a member of suckless.org
        
       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.
        
 (DIR) You can see my previous Halloween post about Bitreich
        
 (TXT) Official Bitreich announcement:
        
       > # 2025-03-27 18:29:56.532851 UTC (+0000)
       > 
       > Welcome someodd as new Bitreich member!
       > 
       > 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.
       > 
       > Welcome!
       > 
       > Sincerely yours,
       > 
       > 20h Chief Community Manager (CCM)
        
       They gave me an SSH account which has some very interesting/fun services. For
       example, they have their own gopher service:
        
 (DIR) My Bitreich gopherhole
        
       I'm very honored and happy to be an official member. I really admire the
       community vibes and their work.