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boringcactus boringcactus at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 21:07:22 BST 2020
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if you use Mastodon or Pleroma and you want to be able to use those over gemini, i built a thing to allow for that.
source code: https://git.sr.ht/~boringcactus/gemifedidemo instance: gemini://gemifedi.boringcactus.com/about
the code is bad - partially because tls libraries with good client cert support are rare, and partially because i'm too lazy to do anything the right way - but it *works*. mostly.
(if your client of choice hasn't implemented client certs yet, you can run gemifedi locally with the --horribly-insecure flag and it will just trust all requests. don't do that for very long at a time, though.)
as an exercise, i think designing gemifedi was really interesting: gemini has constraints i'm not used to working within, and i had to get creative to build what i wanted. for example, while drafting this paragraph in this email, i thought of a better solution to the problem of "well if everything is GET then everything needs to be idempotent" than i previously had.
i'm not sure how gemini-ish this sort of service is, but given that it's possible to build with gemini as it already exists, it might be a useful data point in ongoing discussions about building Applicationsâ„¢ on top of gemini.
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