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I finally took the plunge, and a sloppy plunge at that. Having heard about Gemini protocol, and other smolweb musings across the http land, I wanted to try it out myself. Turns out, I have a lot to learn about SSH, hosting, and setting up what can really be unlocked with this new protocol. One day I would love to get replies, to setup connections, and taste the fruit of community-based connectivity, rather than connectivity-based community. Heck, one day I would love to see what a quarterly zine-esque project could look like over this protocol, and maybe even help edit that.
Until then, I will try out a bit of daily integration of writing a few of my thoughts and interesting flashes of data I come across in my path. I am bad with organization of my own thoughts, I have three dozen half-filled notebooks that lack any semblance of a thread, but I am learning to function well in that space. I find this Solarpunk-esque experiment of gemini small web as a bit of a pioneer behaviour; to be going to where few have gone before, taking the minimum required and looking to adapt, surely our stagnant Digital Character could use more of this behaviour.
My issue is it is hard to be a reader while trying to write. I find such worlds available on such "extranet" or "communinet" experiments much like Gemini, and enjoy the oft-mentioned Nostalgia for the Golden Era of the 90s Internet. The utilisation of words and simple pages offers so much promise, but it is hard to see that promise, let alone execute it, through all the https dependence we have cultivated. I have ideas, but I prefer to formulate them in the receptive act of reading or listening, I still have much to learn by way of speaking and writing.
I am excited. I have changes on the horizon, the first changes practically since March 2020, maybe even it will feel like April 2020 soon, and I can begin to truly play catchup with my shadow. I am eagerly looking forward to a shift, something new, something real. I may not have found it yet, but I should not await its arrival in my lap. I will happily keep researching and learning, as the only purpose I can identify in life, at this time, is to discover one's own.
Bountiful researches to you and yours. Some day soon I will figure out how to set this up to be more communicative, but until then, keep shining.