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Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 17:20:41 BST 2021
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Thanks so much for making this! I found a typo:
Here, I’m going to recommend just one, that I think will feel most familiaror least surprising to new users. That doesn’t mean I think the other onesare bad. A lot of it is just personal preference, just like with webbrowsers. After you get used to Grmini with the client I recommend, you maywant to try some others.
Should be:
Here, I’m going to recommend just one, that I think will feel most familiaror least surprising to new users. That doesn’t mean I think the other onesare bad. A lot of it is just personal preference, just like with webbrowsers. After you get used to Gemini with the client I recommend, you maywant to try some others.
Also, in reasons to use Gemini, accessibility is a big one, to me. Not allclients are accessible, especially GUI clients on Linux, but a lot on otherplatforms are. And having mostly plain text is like having content innative "reader mode" in regular browsers. Like, I was reading
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gemini://simplynews.metalune.xyz/
and I'm always amazed when the content is... just right there. No "skip tocontent" links, no landmarks needed, the page itself *is* the main content.Now, Ascii graphics has been an issue, but with many clients now having theoption to not show them, or giving an option to skip passed them, I thinkthey're not as intrusive nowadays. Of course, not all clients have beenupdated, like Elpher, but most have. So, accessibility could be a bigselling point, and I'll do my best to start recommending Gemini.
Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:10 AM Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:
Hello, all. In conversations with friends where I've been trying to
spread the good news of Gemini, I've gotten the feedback that there
aren't really any easy-to-find Gemini resources for non-technical
beginners; people who may not have experience with Gopher or any other
non-WWW protocols, or who can't compile a client from source, for
example. I decided to meet this issue by writing one.
It starts on the web at https://geminiquickst.art/, and continues on
Gemini at gemini://geminiquickst.art/. It recommends a Gemini client for
new users based on their operating system, tells them where to download
it, and gives them some starts on finding things to read that are
relevant to their interests. There's also a section on publishing things
on Gemini.
I'd appreciate people sharing it wherever they share links, and to keep
it in mind for when anyone asks for such a guide. I welcome feedback,
and I would love to add translations.
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Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray at carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
| but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”
| ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow
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