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This is a community-oriented capsule that provides Gemini users discussion forums, microblogging facilities, and issue trackers with Git repository integration. You only need a Gemini client to participate.
If you are new to Gemini, this is one place where you can start your journey. This capsule does not and is not meant to represent the totality of Geminispace: there are many capsules out there operated by many people, and perhaps one day you will set up one as well.
Even if you already have a capsule of your own, this site can be a common meeting place where you are able to discuss topics with your fellow Geminauts and collaborate on Gemini-related projects. Since geminispace.org can be accessed with any full-featured Gemini client, everyone is on a level playing field regardless of their preferred device or operating system.
To create a new account, navigate to the capsule front page and activate a client certificate. Please check that the certificate is in effect for the entire domain:
Posts and comments are composed of "segments". There can be any number of segments, and the order of segments can be freely changed in the composer. There are four types of segments:
When viewing the post page, each of these segments are visible in their entirety. In various out places, a shortened "feed preview" is shown instead. The composer shows a preview of both the shortened version and the full page contents before you can publish the post.
The formatting of the post is altered for Tinylogs: all headings are converted to level 3.
When making a new post, what you enter in the "New post" prompt becomes the body text of the post and the title will be left blank. You can then edit the post to add a title, if necessary. However, if you begin the text entered into the prompt with a level 1 heading (#), that first line will be extracted and used as the post title. In issue tracker subspaces, the first line is always used as the issue title.
Because Gemini limits the amount of data per request to 1024 bytes, it is unsuitable for uploading files to the server. Therefore, Bubble supports a protocol called Titan for uploading files.
The Titan protocol is an add-on for Gemini clients and servers. It is used to upload data to servers, making external tools like ftp or other protocols like the web unnecessary.
In practice, you need Gemini client that supports Titan uploads (e.g., Lagrange), or a standalone Titan upload tool:
In the "New post" and "Comment" prompts, there are special commands available:
In the "Edit text" prompts of the draft composer:
When editing segments in the draft composer, you may sometimes accidentally submit the input and overwrite the contents, losing some text that you meant to keep in there. While Bubble does not currently keep a history of past edited versions, your client may be able to help you. If you navigate backwards, the old contents of the segment may be found in a cached copy of the page.
You can follow and mute posts, subspaces, and users to customize their visibility and notifications about them. In Settings, you can choose whether the front page feed shows all posts — except mutes ones — or just posts from followed subspaces and users.
Follows are entirely private in Bubble: only you see what you follow, and there are no counters or statistics about them visible anywhere. Followers do not affect the "hotness" sorting order, either.
When you vote in a poll, the post is automatically marked as followed so you will be notified of discussion related to it even though you haven't commented on the poll yourself.
Muting is private, too. No one can see what you have muted, or who has muted them. You can mute individual posts, entire subspaces, and all posts, comments by a particular user. Muting generally prevents notifications from being received regarding the target of the mute.
The front page feed, subspaces, user feeds, and issue trackers can all be filtered based on tags applied on posts.