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nothien at uber.space nothien at uber.space
Fri Jan 8 21:14:05 GMT 2021
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Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:
Mailing lists and NNTP are, of course, the correct protocols for fora
or message boards. But I think what people want here is different.
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.
I understand what you mean, but to be honest, I don't have a solution tothat. I can't think of a way of bringing that feeling that you'vedescribed to a system that properly manages replies, because I think afundamental part of that feeling is that the posts-in-reply are actuallydisconnected, and on another person's site. A system that notifies you(e.g. via e-mail) that you've got replies seems to destroy that feeling,partly I think because it's too similar to the social media that havetaken over the world. Maybe it's different for you.
On the other hand, I have another idea for the mailing list / forumsystem I talked about: introduce self-hosted mail servers where only youcan introduce new (i.e. not in reply to anything) mails. Publishing anew post is equivalent to sending it to the server, from where anyonesubscribed will get it. And on top of that mail server would be aGemini interface. One could introduce someone else's post (and theentire associated reply set) into their own mailing list to "boost" itlike in Mastodon, or to just include their replies to it in their ownlist. It sounds like fun to write - I'll get to it (the Gemini side;there are already enough mail servers) when I can, but (anyone) feelfree to have a go.
~aravk | ~nothien