It’s an alternative to the web as we know it designed to have fewer frills and therefore intentional creation / consumption. There’s a summary about it here: https://geminiprotocol.net/
Anyway, just curious if anybody based in Ireland is there.
Browser: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
There is a bulletin board at: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org
Blogs are hosted at: gemini://flounder.online (among others)
Search engine at: gemini://tlgs.one (among others)
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I’ve been interested in it for a while, but never got around to setting anything about it up.
I do think it could have done with a forms system, since thats where the web peaked for me. But they do seem to want it to just be a simple document sharing system.That’s a good point. I wonder how they achieved the comment section and text input for the search engine without traditional forms.
I agree. That was the peak of the web.
According to this blogpost by the curl dev:
There is a mechanism for a server to send back a single-line prompt asking for “text input” which a client then can pass to it in the URL query component in a follow-up request. But there is no extra meta data or syntax, just a single line text prompt (no longer than 1024 bytes) and free form “text” sent back.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/
Thanks, I didn’t know that. I remember the creator of the spec saying that they felt it was more important now to grow communities rather than develop the spec further. it’s likely that this is all we’ll get for a while.
I’d say it would be easier to grow communities with a more advanced spec, but maybe they’re trying to avoid being too advanced.
