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I see people with there pretty little logs with nicely organized posts... is that manually done? Is there some secret utility for formatting those? I'd love to know, but for now I'm just going to write it all in a single file like a monster. When it gets too annoying for me, I'm gonna break it up into subpages, I think.
I did end up doing that, but I still worry i'm doing Gemini "wrong", somehow. Like... is there a static site generator-like tool for Gemini, that will add my navigation links and format stuff? That sounds super un-gemini, but at the same time I think manually adding timestamps is equally not good. I'm not sure...
I sat on my feelings about it, and I think I judged it too harshly. The default notification settings (all of the things, all of the time) combined with a vague "hotness" metric made me incredibly wary. I hope the person running it doesn't screw things up, but I've come around on the premise I think.
It's fun to see what gemini can do, and there's a romanticism about the whole protocol, I think. It's fun to play into that sometimes, and I think for now I'm engaging with that to a healthy extent. Time will tell.
Another factor I like about it is that it keeps gemini meta discussions on gemini. I really like that.
Still finding my footing on what kinds of client I like. I've been using Amfora for a while, but I like Lagrange's idea of automatically generated themes. This site gets a pretty rubbish one, so I might add a page at some point with some recommendations. I like the idea that it's not my job to design the aesthetics, but rather the viewer. I'm still gonna suggest my own, though. (I like that it can never be more than a suggestion)
The browser-y ness of lagrange is cool, but I find myself wishing i could do combo keybinds like I can in qutebrowser (dd to close a tab, for example). Still early days, maybe I'll come to like it more. But as it stands I'm gonna keep tinkering with it.
Title is a bit of an exaggeration. Honestly getting onto Gemini is much easier than I think the stereotype is, but it still assumes a very tech literate background, and that assumption grows the more time you spend here. I'm currently writing all this stuff by hand, but I'd like to have a little "random rambles tagged with the topic they are, and you can browse chronologically or by tag" thingy. I have no idea how to automate that, though, and initial searching online tells me this is Way Too Hard.
I wish there was a "this program will make all your gemini things really easy to do", or if there is one already, I wish I knew about it. I'd also love to get my own domain some day, but all the cute name ideas are taken, and I don't know how to host stuff myself. Sigh.