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Authors: Ben K. <benk@tilde.team>
Date: 2021-01-13
This is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I never realized what gemfeed does until I stumbled upon its repo and read the readme. I knew people were using some program to generate Atom feeds for their gemlogs, but I didn't realize the program was *that* simple.
When I was new to Gemini I just let Spacewalk be the main aggregator for my site because it didn't require anything special. I liked the fact that Capcom would list individual posts, but I thought how terrible it would be for me to have to make an atom.xml file. Well with gemfeed I was able to just add a line to my gemlog's script, and that's taken care of.
Now, I *think* I submitted the feed properly to Capcom, but I guess I have to wait a bit to see if that worked. Maybe it only updates every twenty-four hours as I suspect gmisub does.
Also, gmisub is wonderful, and I think it's just the right thing for Gemini. I'm now using that as my main aggregator for reading content on Gemini. I know it doesn't catch everything, but well you can't keep track of _everything_.
gemfeed has a small flaw! It orders entries by the timestamp on the file, which means a post will move to the front of the feed if you edit it. (Oops.) I don't really want posts that I make tiny later edits to to be republished as new, but I guess it's not really that bad. I usually end up editing my most recent post anyway, and maybe the occasional bump would help with exposure, though I regard that practice as obnoxious. (As a reader, why would I want to see a post I've already read back at the top off the feed?)
I think gmisub handles this better by requiring posts to have a fixed date. Although as earlier noted, it's not perfect since posts can't be ordered more precisely than the day they were published, as it doesn't read the hour/minute/second. That doesn't really bother me, though.
Now that I'm on all the major aggregators, I think Benlog will finally catch on!!