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From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid
Subject: Re: Geminisphere via backlinks
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:29:06 -0800
Message-ID: <1646030761.bystand@zzo38computer.org>
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
I know very little about gemini, but that sounds like an early sign of building
into gemini the sort of crap that weighs down http/html and I though gemini was
meant to act as an escape from?
Well, it is an optional feature that I suppose that you do not have to use if
you do not want to do. It also isn't a capability of the protocol or of the file
format; it is a separate program using them, as much as you can do like any other
CGI program can do.
(It is done without needing a Referer header. I do not want to add things like
the HTTP Referer header and that stuff, either, but the program that was written
does not use it; it uses only the existing format.)
However, I think that it is not needed, anyways. Back links isn't really
something that I need, and if you want to write articles with comments, then
the NNTP could be used. You could even cross-post, even if with Unusenet to
multiple servers with different newsgroups, and then set follow up to and can
follow up on your own server, and can still find the links.
(You could also make same messages exposed with multiple protocols, and can
also use "Content-type: text/gemini" in NNTP and still readable even in a
program that only understands plain text, too. This way, it is better than HTML.)
--
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.
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Geminisphere via backlinks (by Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:23:45 -0000 (UTC))