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Mansfield mansfield at ondollo.com
Fri Feb 12 02:41:13 GMT 2021
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:21 AM Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:
Solene Rapenne writes:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:15:18 -0500
Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net>:
I'd *like* to fairly rapidly get hosting a Gemini capsule to be "as
simple as hosting a Geocities site in 1996", and from there, make
progress towards "as simple as having a LiveJournal in 2004", the
catch being is that I want to do this with as little Web Platform
technology as possible, and preferably none.
this could be done as simply offering a nextcloud hosting that leads
to a directory published on the gemini server. That's a bit overkill
but will be easy to access to non tech people I think.
That's certainly a thought! I'm not sure how straightforward a nextcloud
signup is. My current thinking is towards a cross-platform native GUI
app that provides a fully-integrated signup (within a ring of supporting
hosting providers), reading, and publishing (over scp/rsync). But I
don't currently have the sporks to implement it.
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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
That's what the Mansfield client does (minus a native GUI, since it's atext UI) - it's meant to be the quickest path to an account on a geminiserver.
After downloading the client (builds are available for Windows, Mac, andLinux), you can just press Ctrl-N and it will automatically do everythingfor you.
Your account is based on whatever cert is active when you request anaccount. The client will make a new random one the first time you run it(with the common name of 'default'). There are shortcut keys in the clientto manage the client's certs - with an option to create a new cert using acommon name provided by the user.
Editing text/gemini docs from a created account is done *in the Mansfieldclient* by design. We feel users shouldn't have to know anything about SSHto contribute content to geminispace. All of this works with the geminiserver at ondollo.com by default.
https://ondollo.com/mansfield
We're super excited at the possibilities that exist when content creationmoves in the direction of "as simple as it can be". Gemini and cert-basedaccounts feel like a great start.-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210211/498aefdb/attachment.htm>