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Re: Project Gemini

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Post by debo_ »

stOneskull wrote: post #156
debo_ wrote: post #71

My main blog is now an "anonymous" gemlog. I use the kineto http proxy to provide a website version as well. I wrote a little deploy script that scrapes my posts and creates an atom XML feed (static doc) that kineto serves for those few people who want to stay up-to-date. Once a quarter, I batch up the recent posts and bcc a bunch of folks I like to keep in touch with. Some of them respond. This is what I do in place…

i installed Kristall to try this all out. Seems nice. Should I stick to it or is there a better client you'd recommend?

I'm not really up to date on the client front at the moment. I've just used Lagrange since the beginning and it hasn't failed me yet!

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by int_19h »

tpoacher wrote: post #190
int_19h wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The different experience is largely thanks to different content, not different protocol. The protocol just serves a gatekeeping role to keep the community small enough.

That's true to some extent, but it's also true that the side-effect of the protocol is that it results in a very different community. It's a bit like saying that the camping experience has nothing to do with not having access to electricity. Well, true but also not true.

I think that the specifics of the protocol don't actually matter all that much. What matters is that it's sufficiently unappealing to filter out most potential users; you genuinely have to feel strongly about the state of the web etc to spend a lot of time on Gemini.

In that sense, I suspect that OP is right and they could have achieved the same on top of, say, HTML 2 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866).

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by tad_tough_anne »

immibis wrote: post #108
rzzzt wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are clients permitted/expected/tolerated to run off and fetch the contents of image links for inline display, once a page containing such links is retrieved?

Not really, in fact they're forbidden - those clients are spec-uncompliant.

Do you have a citation for that? I checked the protocol[1] and gemtext[2] specs but couldn't find it.

1. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi

2. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext-specification.gmi

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by rzzzt »

tad_tough_anne wrote: post #193
immibis wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, in fact they're forbidden - those clients are spec-uncompliant.

Do you have a citation for that? I checked the protocol[1] and gemtext[2] specs but couldn't find it. 1. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi 2. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext-specification.gmi

Someone linked the FAQ elsewhere and point 1.6 covers this: https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi#16-so-its-just-words...
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