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Comment by 🚀 skyjake

Re: "Q: What is the canonical water cooler place in Geminispace?"

In: s/Geminispace

Station is established and familiar, but quite "generic chat" type of place, and perhaps not Gemini-focused enough.
gs.org is tailor-made for this, but very new.
Tinylogs are great because they're decentralized and simple static pages essentially, but we need more clients to improve the UX.
IRC is a "simple" chatroom and too synchronous (time zones, etc.). I don't/can't partake myself.
Fediverse (hashtag #gemini) works pretty well IMO, but is web-oriented or requires an app.

🚀 skyjake

2023-05-31 · 5 months ago

Poll Results

1. Station

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2. geminispace.org

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3. Tinylogs

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4. IRC (#gemini on tilde.chat)

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5. XMPP (please comment to say where)

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6. Matrix (please comment to say where)

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7. Fediverse

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8. Other (please comment)

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27 votes were cast.

11 Later Comments ↓

🐝 Addison

Do you mean water*cooler*? 😁

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

I totally meant water cooler. m(

But thinking about it, an electric kettle should work as well. ;)

👤 benk

XMPP of course

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

@benk Are there any XMPP rooms or channels for geminauts?

💀 mieum

what about astrobotany? i mostly peruse posts, so places like antenna are the kinds of water coolers i frequent

2023-06-01 · 5 months ago

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

@mieum Antenna is all about posts. I was asking about *the* place for short-form communication beside posts. And can you multilaterally share your thoughts while watering the plants?

👤 benk

@michaelnordmeyer There is my room geminauts@chat.kwiecien.us (I'm not sure if we invented the term geminaut, but maybe!)

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

@benk Thanks. I added a XMPP option to the poll

👤 benk

@michaelnordmeyer oh good can do that? Neat

👻 sirwilburthefirst

I suggest starting a tinylog even if you only update it infrequently and feel like no one is reading it. Having a permanent record of your (random) thoughts is great.

2023-06-02 · 5 months ago

🐙 norayr

i am thinking of running tootik, it is a fedi instance with gemini frontend.

2023-06-27 · 4 months ago

Original Post

🌒 s/Geminispace

Q: What is the canonical water cooler place in Geminispace? — I'm wondering if I should start a tinylog and use gtl to stay in touch with people using a decentralized microblog. Or use the fediverse more. Maybe geminispace.org or… Essentially everything, which I want to share, for which a gemlog might not be the right place.

💬 michaelnordmeyer · 13 comments · 2 likes · 2023-05-31 · 5 months ago · 🗳️