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[users] Introducing gemthought, a format for micro gemlogging

Chris McGee <newton688 (a) gmail.com>

Hello All,

I've been finding that the drive to write lengthy articles, rfcs and
gemlogs has been keeping me from writing anything at all in my gemini
capsule. Drawing inspiration from micro-blogging platforms that I use
regularly I started writing gemthoughts, which are meant to be really
short, simple and approachable so that I will hopefully do this more often.

I've started publishing them here:
gemini://lonelysilo.ca/gemthought

A draft description of the format with some semantics can be found here:
gemini://lonelysilo.ca/rfc/gemthought.gmi

Cheers,
Chris

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Nathan Galt <mailinglists (a) ngalt.com>



On Tue, May 18, 2021, at 6:00 PM, Chris McGee wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've been finding that the drive to write lengthy articles, rfcs and 
gemlogs has been keeping me from writing anything at all in my gemini 
capsule. Drawing inspiration from micro-blogging platforms that I use 
regularly I started writing gemthoughts, which are meant to be really 
short, simple and approachable so that I will hopefully do this more often.
> 
> I've started publishing them here:
> gemini://lonelysilo.ca/gemthought
> 
> A draft description of the format with some semantics can be found here:
> gemini://lonelysilo.ca/rfc/gemthought.gmi
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

Looks neat, but what's the difference between short blog posts and 
gemthoughts? RDF seems to be involved, but I'm not sure what one is 
_supposed_ to do with things in brackets to make them actual gemthoughts.

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prx <prx (a) si3t.ch>

Hi,
Have you heard about twtxt? It looks l'?le what you try to achieve : 
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

A twtxt file can ne served through http, gopher, FTP, and of course Gemini.


Le 19 mai 2021 03:00:16 GMT+02:00, Chris McGee <newton688 at gmail.com> a ?crit :
>Hello All,
>
>I've been finding that the drive to write lengthy articles, rfcs and
>gemlogs has been keeping me from writing anything at all in my gemini
>capsule. Drawing inspiration from micro-blogging platforms that I use
>regularly I started writing gemthoughts, which are meant to be really
>short, simple and approachable so that I will hopefully do this more
>often.
>
>I've started publishing them here:
>gemini://lonelysilo.ca/gemthought
>
>A draft description of the format with some semantics can be found
>here:
>gemini://lonelysilo.ca/rfc/gemthought.gmi
>
>Cheers,
>Chris

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Rev. Fr. Robert Bower <frrobert (a) frrobert.com>

Drew and the team from the Trendy Talk podcast have developed a different 
format for microblogs.

The microblogs for a user are on a single Gemini page in the following format.

# Fr. Robert's Microblog

## Tue 18 May 2021 19:31 UTC
I have joined the Fediverse my instance is at 
https://social.frrobert.com/channel/frrobert

## Tue 18 May 2021 19:29 UTC
@Toby there is there is an additional program call khard that is a contact 
list that works with pim utils.  It was developed by someone else but it 
works fine with vdirsyncer.  I have been using all the programs for 
several years and I second your endorsement of them.

## Mon 17 May 2021 19:32 UTC
=>gemini://frrobert.net/log/trendythoughts-2021-05-16-1607.gmi This week's 
Trendy Thoughts are out

Time zones do not be to UTC but the three character code should be listed.

The reason is it is called the Lace format is Drew developed a program 
called lace that lets you subscribe to Gemini microblog pages which are 
then downloaded and sorted in chronological order.

With Drew's permission I have forked the project and expanded on the 
program.  The largest change is that is runs on more distributions and 
also on Termux for Android.

The project can be found at: https://github.com/frrobert2/lace

If you want to see how the results of lace look you can go to 
gemini://frrobert.net/lace.gmi

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