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gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos.gmi
Occasionally people reply or refer to others' posts in Geminispace, but these threads of discussion are not really visible anywhere. I wanted to make something to help with this, so I wrote a new aggregator that tracks links between posts.
6 months ago · 👍 bimzhob, kevinsan, martin, enceladus, gnuserland, cobradile94, lykso, kocka_collector, krixano, lunchboxhero_
[1] gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos.gmi
@wolftivy
Does the simplicity of Gemini make this easier?
Definitely. Since there are no inline links, it forces one to link more deliberately to other pages, making it less ambiguous to discover connections.
But the real foundation for this is the Gemini Subscriptions format. Without that, one would have to crawl the entire Geminispace, guess which pages are intended to be log posts, and find backlinks. It would be much harder to form meaningful discussion threads out of that data.
clients could pull from a service
Possible for sure, and could provide UX benefits for this narrow use case. I would prefer to keep clients more general-purpose, though. · 6 months ago
posts are jumping between days
Looks like this is actually due to seveal source feeds giving a different timestamp to the same post, so depending on which one has been checked last, the thread moves around. Could be related to the lack fo timezones in gemfeeds, so dates can get a bit fuzzy. · 6 months ago
I just want to register how cool this way of threading is vs centralized fat web forums like reddit or hacker news. It makes the normal way of referencing things into first class threads. Does the simplicity of Gemini make this easier? Or is it just size and creativity? I wonder if clients could pull from a service like this to insert inline backlinks. · 6 months ago
@gnuserland @enceladus @wolftivy Thanks! 🙂
I noticed that a handful of posts were linking to themselves (🤷?) so they had become their own parents. These have been fixed and are now showing in the index.
Quick stats: database has 1881 posts from 79 feeds (some sources are aggregators and some individual gemlogs). 232 posts are part of a thread. · 6 months ago
that is clever! 👏👏👏 · 6 months ago
This is fantastic, really makes the gemini sphere beyond Station feel more like a community! · 6 months ago
Hmm, looks like some of the posts are jumping between days (e.g., The Boston Diaries thread) every now and then. Likely a timestamp conversion glitch... I'm storing Unix timestamps in the database but converting to/from YYYY-MM-DD dates. · 6 months ago
This is great. Bookmarked. · 6 months ago
@reidrac It's basically all the posts from the main aggregators like Antenna in one list. Posts that link to each other are grouped together so one can follow the discussion thread (or the series of posts from a single author). · 6 months ago
This is awesome! Nice work 🙂 · 6 months ago
Coincidentally, just noticed this with similar motivations:
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-01-11-launching-mentions.gmi · 6 months ago
wow - an embryonic thing of beauty. thanks for building this! · 6 months ago
Test successful: it found this reply thread on Station. 😊 · 6 months ago