i wanted to annotate this but it blocks js injection so it will never make it into my notes/blog :( still, y'all get it!

https://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.html

The Social Smolnet

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

> It looks like nothing. It looks like trivial. But for me, this really transformed Gemini/Gopher and the Small Web into a social network. As I use neomutt+neovim as my mail client, I don’t leave my terminal. I simply write "reply", neovim opens, I write "Thank you for this nice post", :wq, ,and voilà. The mail will be sent during my next synchronization.

interfaces embed etiquette. if you have a nice little button for yourself to do a thing (cli counts) you have permission-inertia to do it!

authors' emails are often today given pro forma without the expectation of actual engagement, so the presence of that little hyperlink on a page doesn't seem to Permit. but a little command in your interface – yes, even one you build yourself – somehow does!
i'm less cli-ish. i can imagine writing a bookmarklet to get a little page overlay in the style of e.g. my work new-tab. type in a reply that then just turns into one of those prefilled email links (subject=...&body=...)
@maya ive seriously considered adding a netlify forms "reply privately to author" field on my blog posts for this reason... maybe i'll add it one day (hoping it doesn't get spammed ever)