Adventures in Atom

I offer up several feeds for my blog, one of the formats being Atom [1], a much nicer (and better specified) than RSS (Really Simple Syndication) [2] (which I also offer by the way). There exists an Atom feed aggregator [3] for Gemini [4]. The Atom specification [5] allows zero or more links to a blog entry. I discussed this with the author of CAPCOM (the Atom feed aggregator for Gemini) and it can deal with multiple links. I don't know about any other Atom aggregators out there, but I'm going to find out, because each entry now has three links per entry—one to the web version [6], one to the Gemini version [7] and one to the gopher version [8].

I have a feeling this is going to be fun, and by “fun,” I mean “it will probably break things somewhere because who is stupid enough to use more than one link?”

Update a few moments later …

Of course, becuse of the way I translate links for the gopher version, those using gopher won't see the web version of the link. Sigh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[3] https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/CAPCOM

[4] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[5] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt

[6] http://boston.conman.org/2020/07/20.1

[7] gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2020/07/20.1

[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/0Phlog:2020/07/20.1

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