I've been spending a fair bit of time on SDF lately, setting up, or re-setting up my gopherspace.
I've had an SDF account for years, possibly twenty years, but the last serious attempt I had with gopher was in 2015. It's not quite so confusing now.
The new gopherspace is gopher://sdf.org/1/users/paulskin, you'll need a gopher client (lynx will do, or elpher for Emacs), although the proxy access from the SDF site works intermittently in a browser. Overbite is a reasonable browser alternative too.
A trifle veraltet but it's provided me with hours of endless amusement at least.