🤓 Gemini Space for hacking

As of January 2022, there are only about there’s only around 200,000 pages across 1200 domains. This is small enough to be manageable, but large enough to be interesting to work on. To put things in perspective, Gemini space is roughly the size of WWW in 1992 right now.

Fun areas to hack on:

• How can I surface cool and interesting content?
• How do you search this space? How do you keep that up-to-date? This is great excuse to play around with full text search, reverse indexes, and hashtags?
• How can you find meaningful meta data with a spartian protocol?
• What does a graphic of Gemini space look like? How can we visualize the world of content?
• How interconnecting are capsules and pages? How smol is this smol space?

Some ideas in my head:

• Antenna is freaking amazing! How can we better discovery content like this automatically? Polling gemlogs, etc.
• Searching Gemini: This is a big one. We have a few search engines, but the results can be hit or miss. How can we improve this?
• Gemini space is dynamic (e.g. ☠️ the Mailing List ☠️). Should we archive content? How would a Wayback machine for Geminispace work?
• Capsule linter: Crawling gemini I see a lot of problems with various capsules. Broken links, bad Mimetypes, invalid gemtext, content in other languages missing "lang=" attributes, etc.