adele, to SmallWeb
@adele@phpc.social avatar

pollux.casa account registration is reopened!

If you need a dual protocol gemini/https hosting, I propose a free solution on a personal server. You will get 1GB storage to put and images files and build a capsule also accessible through https.
More info on https://pollux.casa/ or gemini://pollux.casa/
A smart autoindex generate an index of your posts if no index.gmi is found in a directory 😉 easier for a gemlog, read the doc to name files

andre, to node
@andre@fedi.jaenis.ch avatar

I discovered a glitch in the Matrix!

A situation so unlikely I never considered it possible!

There is no package for generating (for resp. )!

The closest I could find is a parser from 2020.

Plus plenty of cryptocurrency garbage.

Excuse me, there's a framework waiting to be written 😸

(If you want to turn Markdown into Gemtext, recommendations go to a Python package)

fenndev, to neovim
@fenndev@social.coop avatar

I'm working on a / -inspired & editor, á la . It's written in . Did I get all of the buzzwords?

The code? Shit.
The design? Nonexistent.
Features? Not implemented.

It doesn't even do anything yet. The only command implemented is :q. But it is a start, aha.

https://codeberg.org/fenndev/xen-md

reiver, to markdown
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

This is one of the things that attracts some people to the gemini-protocol and gemtext.

I.e., that gemini is close to being a world-wide-web based on markdown rather than HTML.

...

Having talked to many of these people —

Some are fully happy with gemini and gemtext.

Some are unsatisfied with gemtext's lack of (what they feel are) key features that markdown has.

@requiem
https://mastodon.social/@requiem@hackers.town/111401519178774450

iyashikei_kris,
@iyashikei_kris@mstdn.social avatar

@reiver @requiem

I'm on the first camp, I think gemtext is fine the way it is. But that post made me dream about all the possibilities

Imagine Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu but implemented with and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

indieterminacy,

@iyashikei_kris @reiver @requiem Ive done a parser which combines ; Emac's formats with so that one can use each others syntaxes in combination with eachother

https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/1q20hqh_oqo_parsing_qiuynonical/

That should be interesting enough for nuts

reiver, (edited ) to email
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

I recently became aware of a new small-net protocol (thanks to @wholesomedonut ) —

Misfin
gemini://misfin.org/
https://sr.ht/~lem/misfin/

Where the gemini-protocol is an alternative to the gopher-protocol and the Web — Misfin is an alternative to e-mail.

Misfin is tied to the gemini-protocol & gemtext — messages are assumed to be gemtext, server responses are based on gemini-protocol server responses, etc.

reiver, to markdown
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

There is a type of person who is attracted to the gemini-protocol and gemtext because they wanted a Web that was based on Markdown instead of HTML.

And the gemini-protocol + gemtext seemed close to that.

...

Not everyone who is attracted to gemini-protocol or gemtext is this type of person.

But I've talked to enough of these types of people that I know they are definitely out there.

reiver, (edited ) to random in PostFreely Update (2023-10-01)
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

PostFreely Update (2023-10-01)

https://flamewar.social/post/2579

reiver, to random
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

It seems like the official Gemini-Protocol and Gemtext site has a new Internet domain name:

https://geminiprotocol.net/
gemini://geminiprotocol.net/

...

It used to be:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/

...

The latter now redirects to the former.

reiver, to SmallWeb
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

🚨 Attention Gemini, Gopher, & Finger fans —

Adële ( @adele ) has something to show you:

https://smolweb.org/

Adële joins others who argue that — we shouldn't throw out all of the HTML "baby" with the broken-web "bath water" — but that instead —

We should use a restricted subset of HTML — and in particular XHTML.

https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@adele/110984755396680624

reiver, to random
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

Sometimes I wonder if the gemini-protocol, or something like it, used an HTTP-upgrade for its protocol — if it would have made more people happy.

...

(Yes I know HTTP/2 forbids HTTP-upgrades — I think it was a mistake.)

...

A request could have just been:

"""
GET http://example.com/.well-known/gemini HTTP/1.1
Connection: upgrade
Upgrade: gemini/1.0

gemini://example.com/path/to/it.gmni
"""

reiver, to random
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

The and were an attempt to modernize (while not making certain mistakes the Web has made).

There have been lessons learned over the years about both the "good" things and the "bad" things about and Gemtext.

If you were to redesign the Gemini-Protocol and Gemtext yourself —

What would your redesign of Gemini and Gemtext look like?

reiver,
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

Somewhat related to:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/110753489613394517

The creator of the Amfora gemini-browser is abandoning gemini.

In his farwell-to-gemini article he ( @makeworld ) lists both what feels are the "good" and the "bad" of gemini-protocol , gemtext , and (indirectly) about gopher , too.

https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

risottobias, to fediverse

is removing server headers actually beneficial to , or is it

e.g., removing the server version

pros: for a widely used software (like apache), knowing the exact version helps you narrow down exploits.

rebuttal: you know it's mastodon or already.

cons: think like a user. Removing the server version means that users can't know that you've lapsed in updating the site.

transparency over obscurity.

indieterminacy,

@risottobias I get what you are saying.

The protocol aims to either send the format , which provides a simpler format, else what is refers to as a 'binary', which would be a file which has no (direct) syntax assumptions.

But back to your point there was a recent conversation in this matrix room that touches upon that topic (somewhat):
https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.org

It involves @quilnux and @strypey

jbzfn, to random
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

♊ Problems with Gemini
— @Seirdy

https://seirdy.one/notes/2022/09/05/problems-with-gemini/

rickcarlino, to random
@rickcarlino@mastodon.social avatar

Are there any client for iOS that do push notifications when your gempub feeds update? Or maybe if that is antithetical to Gemini hmmm

indieterminacy,

@vintprox @rickcarlino Just create a Makefile to empower your client in the background and send a Growl type notification and be done with it.

is marvellous in its simplicity - it and (which is an Emacs format) serve the majority of my needs nicely.

You can add rules and inferences that other markdown or non markdown formats cant do because they have non minimal rules in place.

Adding complexity to and Gemtext kills capacity to experiment and improvise.

reiver, to SmallWeb
@reiver@mastodon.social avatar

1/

What is Gemini?

I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.

So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.

But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.

Here goes —

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