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Nowadays, I primarily read gemlogs, but there are a few high-quality weblogs which I follow. One such blog is hosted on Wordpress. My first reaction to Wordpress, a large dynamic PHP application if memory serves, is that it epitomizes the size of the web that Gemini seeks to scale back. In some sense, perhaps this is true, at least from the author's perspective.
Yet from the reader's perspective, it isn't the worst thing. I am able to subscribe to a blog to my email, and rather than requiring a pull-based feed aggregator like RSS or Atom needs, I simply get an email pushed when a new post comes out. More than just a push notification, the email contains the entire text of the blog post, enabling me to read it entirely from mutt.
Better, there's some backend magic that lets me to reply to the email as a comment on the blog, so I can continue to interact with an author there, all without leaving mutt+vim.
It certainly is not Gemini, but this reader workflow is -- as Shufei would say -- smol in its own way.
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I stand corrected:
From: "WordPress.com" <donotreply@wordpress.com>
To: alyssa@rosenzweig.io
Subject: There was an error processing your recent comment reply by email
Howdy!
We ran into a problem with your recent comment reply by email. Specifically, we
weren't able to find your comment in the email.
We'll do our best to get this fixed up. In the meantime, you may want to comment
directly on the post: