On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:39:07PM +0000, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote: > Like many of us, I've really enjoyed reading and taking in people's > gemlogs on Geminispace. But I often want to reply to what people have > written, to ask a question, let them know I enjoyed it etc. I created > gemlikes to be able to do that. Thanks for sharing your project! Somewhat like I said in my earlier post responding to the announcement of Geddit, it will be really interesting to see whether or not this kind of thing takes root in Geminispace, where it's comparatively difficult (compared to the web) to control spam without making the user jump through hoops (nobody is going to want to generate a client certificate for each gemlog they might want to comment on). Commenting is very rare in Gopherspace, although it is possible and you occassionally see it. By convention people respond either by just emailing the author or by writing a response post of their own. I have read many people say that they really like this, because it encourages a more carefully thought out and long form response than a comment. Of course, this second option (writing a response) only really works because Gopherspace is small enough that there is a high likelihood of the original poster finding your response. It works well within small communities, but does not scale. Since Gemini does a very good job of addressing just about all of the small irritations that people tend to notice in Gopher, I am kind of hoping that it grows to be larger than Gopherspace, and as such this cherished norm might break down. In my experience the email thing works well, and lends Gopherspace a very personal feel, which I enjoy. That, too, might break down if email address harvesting robots penetrate Geminispace in the future and people don't want to put their address on their "about" page. Who knows how things will pan out here. I'd be kind of sad to see the rise of a third-party Disqus-style solution here in Geminispace, but of course I'm powerless to stop it. Sorry if I sound down on all these cool new commenting and link-sharing projects, I don't mean to me! I'm really happy to see people pouring energy and into Geminispace projects. I'm just really curious to see how all of this pans out in the longer term. Cheers, Solderpunk
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