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Rohan Kumar seirdy at seirdy.one
Sun Jan 10 06:00:11 GMT 2021
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Jason McBrayer wrote:
Gemlog posts are standalone documents that you put out into the world
to read. It's a wonderful part of community that people write gemlogs
in response to other gemlogs; it's very similar to the early blogging
community before it became focused on monetization, and then crowded
out by social media.
What people want in this case, I think, is not so much a direct
analogue of a forum, but a way of collecting and following the set of
gemlog posts responding to each other, but also get notification when
your own posts are replied to. Maybe this set of conventions for apps
may look too forum-like, but it is a good suggestion for an approach to
the question of doing that kind of notifications without trying to do a
POST-equivalent over Gemini.
This has been solved on the WWW through Webmentions. It should be possible to bring this to a Gemini site, though perhaps not using the Gemini protocol.
Currently, if Alice writes a (micro)blog post responding to Bob's post, Bob can get a notification or display Alice's response as a comment under his post automatically. The result is something that can replace silos like social media; everyone owns their own sites and talks to each other, posting and repeating like Twitter or the various Fediverse microblogging implementations.
To bring this to Gemini, Webmention software could simply handle Webmentions with gemini:// URLs. The sending of Webmentions could be done over HTTP, but the verification of Webmentions sent using gemini:// will obviously use the Gemini protocol.
I'll be working on something like ddevault's openring (https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring/), but for saved Webmentions instead of RSS feeds; I'll probably include an option for Gemtext output as well as HTML.
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