# Posting on Gopher vs. the Web

Sometimes I wonder where best to post something. If I feel something
applies to both web and gopher domains, I post it on both, otherwise
just to one.

I don't generally like linking to web resources from gopher - but
that is limiting. Sometimes I'll read something on a (web) blog and
think I have something to say on it, and think that it would be best
posted on the web, rather than gopher. But then I feel that gopher
lacks content, and could use more of it - so do I link to the web
content [0], archive it on gopher [1], selectively quote it [2], or
just don't post it on gopher at all?

Some sites have a web-to-gopher proxy and just post to gopher,
mirroring all their gopher posts to the web automatically. If the
proxy recognizes links in text files, this can make it easy to link
to websites and forget about it. I don't like this as it assumes
content is suitable for both domains. Another issue is that the
automatic proxies give free rein to the AI bots to hammer one's
gopher server. I don't think gopher itself is on the radar of the
web bots [3], and I'd like to keep it that way.

I like the idea of archiving of web content as text (lynx -nolist
-nonumbers -dump...)  on gopher, with the original link somewhere in
the archived text. Relevant images are an issue; if you want to keep
content on gopher, they need to be downloaded and probably
resized. All of this is a lot of work, or at least a lot more work
than adding a simple link to your gopher post. So is it worth
straddling both domains, curating independent web and gopher sites?

[0]: gopher://sdf.org/0/users/thinknix/glog/fedora-deprecates-legacy-bios.md
[1]: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/thinknix/articles/general-gopher-history
[2]: gopher://sdf.org/0/users/thinknix/glog/more-on-nostalgia.md
[3]: gopher://sdf.org/0/users/thinknix/glog/gopher-and-ai-bots.md