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idf31 at memeware.net idf31 at memeware.net
Thu Sep 10 10:05:06 BST 2020
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On 2020-09-10 08:39, Leo wrote:
twtxt seems more aligned with the mindset of Gemini, and is already
supported by gemini servers and clients.
Can we adapt twtxt instead of reinventing the wheel, I don't think it
gets simpler than that anyway. Just a text file with one line for
tweets.
One advantage is that only the clients are involved and if I don't
check your feed, there is no cost. Or is the plan for the servers to
be more actively involved like Fedi?
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Leo
It seems I haven't really made the intent of the protocol clear, I apologise.InVis is not an attempt to reinvent social media like twitter or facebook or whatever. And I agree with you that there are a lot of clones for these things. In more general terms, InVis should provide a way for Gemini servers to mirror each other's content. It should provide a way for Geminauts to make their content available to a wider space, and to provide a nice way of archiving as a side-effect.
I think this could increase the discoverability of content, since a reader would be presented with a much wider library of content from other people than just the people that run that one server the reader stumbled upon. All that is needed to read an InVis module is a Gemini client, since all InVis would do is to mirror gemtext files between servers :)
Again, I apologise for the misunderstanding, I will try to update the draft soon.