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Sat on the back porch with a cup of coffee this morning surfing gemini and mastodon. This is what my morning was like!
1. Mixtapes!
2. Small Internet is Small
3. Spacewalking
4. twtxt
@acdw@writing.exchange posted this morning that the konpeito mixtapes are back up!
I found out about them in the first place earlier this summer when I was still pretty new to gemspace when I was browsing ~jfm's commonplace book, and they mentioned them.
The summer 2020 Konpeito mixtape is out! They're absolutely one of the best things in Geminispace, so go grab it!
I used av98 to download the zip, and have been jamming out this morning.
Last week my friend @m455@tiny.tilde.website and I were goofing around, posting to mastodon from lynx using brutaldon.
https://tiny.tilde.website/@dozens/104423221409593579
https://brutaldon.online/about
It's a totally 100% useful minimalist mastodon client that is bare bones enough to be quite simple and pleasant to use in lynx, my preferred terminal web/gopher client.
So anyway, I was cruising around gemspace this morning like I said, and discovered that the aformention ~jfm is the author of brutaldon!
The small internet really is a small place :D
solderpunk linked to gemlog.blue in their gemlog.
Looks nice, dead simple.
You can browse users on gemini, and it has a spacewalk.
One thing I've discovered that I really like about the gemini protocol and about gemini clients is that when you have a large index like a spacewalk or a capcom, it's really enjoyable to just start mashing numbers and see where you end up. It's a bit of a gamble, a bit of a roulette wheel of gemini space.
I might quickly scan the index to see if I recognize any names or see any interesting titles. But otherwise, I like just sequentially typing in link numbers, sight unseen, and see where they go.
Which I know is kind of the whole point of gopher: it's supposed to be directory based browsing. But even so it never really quite felt to the way that gemini does.
Crusing around gemlog.blue, I stumbled on ~iolfree's gemlog, and noticed that they are hosting their twtxt.txt file there!
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space:1965/~iolfree/twtxt.txt
Twtxt, for the unfamiliar, is a plain-text, distributed microblogging platform.
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
I, incidentally, sporadically twtxt myself at @<dzns http://tilde.town/~dozens/tw.txt>
Feel free to say hello!
Its a weird quirky little platform. I didn't expect to encounter it here in gemini space, but it makes sense! Sounds like we might need a new client with gemini (and gopher!) support. Assuming such a thing doesn't already exist.
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