I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I’ll talk a bit about my membership and about Bitreich itself.
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:
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.
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.
You can see my previous Halloween post about Bitreich
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:
I’m very honored and happy to be an official member. I really admire the community vibes and their work.
Original content in gopherspace: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/1/phlog/i-am-now-a-bitreich-member.gopher.txt