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Gemini is one of those things I see pop up and tell myself I should look into it more and then it fades into the back of my mind.

Anyone have any hints on getting more use out of it or ways to make it more present in my day to day.

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NewsWaffle gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/

takes a url to a regular webpage and spits out a gemtext version that is much more sparse and, for me, is much more readable.

For example, here's this very website:

gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/feed?https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss

it's honestly the only reason I still use gemini since the rest of it is abandoned gemlogs, rehosts of web content I don't care or ersatz social media

Oh nice, a gateway in the opposite direction!

There are far more gopher phlogs than gemini gemlogs.

Still, both communities overlap of course.

Setting up a gopher phlog requires no TLS at all and any machine from 1980 (even maybe ITS with a Gopher client written in MacLisp) will be able to read it with no issues.

that's another large chunk of gemini; rehosted gopherholes. Which is silly unless the originals aren't accessible anymore since gopher is already a minimalist protocol

They render better on Smartphones. Lagrange and such do a good job but is not perfect.

Oddly, the best client for Android (albeit clunky) has been Emacs+Elpher as it has the perfect options for word wrapping.

Altough as most Gopher sites are hosted under Unix, running fmt/fold/par on files is a non-issue modulo ASCII ART and inline code with hard requeriments on indentation (TCL for instance on code blocks) or Python.

I made the first (and still popular) "social network" 4 years ago. Still going strong. More info: https://martinrue.com/station

it's this federated with anything?

No, it's as simple as it sounds. I should think about that at some point.

This is an interesting project. So the whole thing is hosted at gemini://station.martinrue.com, with no way to host other instances? Stuff like this that leverages the default TLS nature of gemini is pretty exciting. I'm going to have to set up an account later to check it out.

Edit: Checked it out and this is definitely a cool idea. Is there any way to change the unicode emoji next to your name?

https://github.com/dimkr/tootik is another Gemini social network that does federate over ActivityPub, and I've been thinking about developing a minimalist ActivityPub alternative (maybe using Gemini and Titan to replace HTTP GET and POST, respectively) that can coexist with ActivityPub support

That’s brilliant, and exactly the sort of thing that could get me back into Gemini. Nice!

thanks! looks interesting

I love the frugality, overall project goals, and I'm used to non mainstream ergonomics (I enjoy gnu ed..). But something about Gemini search engines and browsing was unfit for me to keep using it.

Perhaps this may help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/geminize/

You will need to prefix a gemini URL with "gem " if you're pasting it into the address bar.

Kristall[1] is my favourite browser, Antenna[2] is my favourite aggregator.

Get browser, read some capsules!

[1]https://kristall.random-projects.net/ [2] gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

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