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- Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net>
@ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:20 -0400
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Mansfield writes:
https://ondollo.com/mansfield currently offers free gemini hosting.
Thanks for asking, and thanks for writing up something to help
newcomers!
Hi! I'm deeply ambivalent about recommending your application to new
users. On the one hand, your app does *almost exactly* what I think is
the Right Thing for Gemini publishing: provide a unified native app for
both reading and publishing, with integrated account creation. I
honestly want to commend you for that.
On the other hand, neither your client nor your server are Free
Software. I can't really recommend to new users to run an untrusted
binary that I can't provide any security/privacy assurances for. Despite
my interest, I haven't even run it myself, for that reason.
Likewise, the client locks the user into using your server for
publishing. While that's certainly the easiest approach starting out,
I'd rather see an open standard for registration and publishing,
preferably using existing protocols.
Again, thanks for doing this experiment, because I think it's the right
direction for things to go; I just can't recommend it to new users at
this time.
--
Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray@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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