I had a nice email exchange with rfmpie@rawtext [0] recently about
gopher best practices, referencing a couple of my phlog posts
[1][2].  His post 'back to gopher' [3] mirrors my own thoughts about
gopher simplicity:

    People are still pushing Gemini around, trying to add "likes"
    and comments and whatnot. That makes me want to run the other
    way. I don't want to see what Gemini can become; I want what
    Gopher already is.

While I never left gopher for gemini, I share the sentiment that
gopher provides the simplicity I'm looking for. Nothing more. I'm
quite content to publish on gopher.

I also think that by simply using gopher, it has become more than
its designers intended, that is it went from a document delivery
system to a community - what I see as the phlogosphere, public
gophers, aggregators and search engines. Email is also a core part
of this community - as a simple, asynchronous communication medium,
email fits nicely with gopher in lieu of direct commenting
mechanisms.

[0]: gopher://rawtext.club/1/~rfmpie
[1]: gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/0/glog/gopher-annoyances.md
[2]: gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/0/glog/comments-on-gopher-design.md
[3]: gopher://rawtext.club/0/~rfmpie/phlog/2022-02-18-back-to-gopher.org