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Linked is the story of how I got here.
I'd be interested to hear other stories if people want to share!
2023-05-26 · 6 weeks ago
Myself, I found Gemini via a YouTube video explaining the portocol and how simple it is.. like last year
Mucked around a bit with `openssl s_client -connect` and really enjoyed it! But had some hard drive issues shortly after and leftthe space for a while. I rediscovered it because AstroBotany came back to my mind a few weeks back.
Having a blast.
I think it was Alex Schroeder (@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch) whose toots about Gemini got me curious enough to check out the specification. This was in the summer of 2020.
random tech article --> privacy tools.io --> Lemmy.ml (reddit clone) --> Gemini
Bumped into LaGrange while checking Scoop's list of apps and got sucked into a rabbit-hole.
I was frustrated with the sad state of text based browsing and went looking to see how active gopher was so I could use that because sites I used to browse via elinks were no longer working and I really wanted a simpler, text based web. In the pursuit of that I stumbled over Gemini and couldn't get to exploring it fast enough.
I suspect I'm not the only one who discovered Gemini through following Drew Devault's blog. I disagree with his opinions frequently but enjoy his writing, so I've been subscribed to his rss feed for quite a long time. Anyway, he had a post explaining why he was throwing his weight behind the Gemini protocol, mixed in with a rant about web technologies. It all resonated with me. I looked into Gemini shortly thereafter and have gotten more involved since. Funny, Drew is gone now but I expect the people he is responsible for bringing here have made it a more vibrant place even without him.
Can't really tell. I've encounterd it two or three times a couple of months apart, until I tried it in earnest. Likely via Hundred Rabbits, which I knew from sailing/minimalism YouTube, and solar.lowtechmagazine.com.
At the time, I had a don't-install-any-new-apps phase, and the "showcase" pages on gemini.circumlunar.space always ended up on doorway pages, which want to encourage you to try the protocol, which obviously won't work without a new app. And the mentioned Gemin2Web proxies somehow were also a dead end.
Summer of 2021, HN --> https://lab6.com brought me to the tildeverse
Then issue 2, which came out shortly after, introduced me to Gemini:
I discovered gopher in 2017 through a post on hacker news. I just thought it was so cool that there was this alternate network protocol completely separate from the WWW, and it was actually still alive and being used by people. Then I came to gemini through gopher.
2023-05-27 · 6 weeks ago
Via sdf's bboard, in 2020. Read the spec and was intrigued, and since it was Covid lockdown I took up the challenge in the claim that writing a client should be a weekend project, and was soon exploring the few gemini servers around back then in my own client (which I'm still using now!). Good times.