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~inquiry

The gemini situation/model for interaction - which seems to be one of posting links and/or inline quoting some/all of their content, and then writing comments thereafter in one's own post - is oddly reminding me of a show I'm watching this very moment courtesy of it being a favorite of a couple grandchildren: "Unspeakable", wherein some guy is commenting on game/gaming content/scenes/scenarios.

I'm finding it quite entertaining despite possibly being the most non-gamer who's ever lived!

I guess what I'm trying to say in the context of this thread is I'm not sure there need be the likes of a Midnight Pub facilitating interaction. Maybe even that is still Too Fast (relative to some "slow net" kinds of posts I've read of late)? Maybe it's honestly better to be more disconnected, truly chancing upon others via links people have put and commented on in their gemini posts?

(Not sure I'm using correct gemini terminology at all... but hopefully I'm not sounding too obtuse....)

(UPDATE: And then the following appeared to me just a little while later as if by magick: gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-10-05-there-is-no-content-on-gemini.gmi)

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~ew wrote (thread):

Hi ~inquiry, while I fully agree, that "no content" is the very purpose (as explained by ploum), and while I consciously enjoy the "slow" nature of gemini space, I think the original post is just about a tool thing: We can read the messages in The Midnight with elpher or Langrange, but we cannot easily? or at all? post our content using the same toolset. Lagrange apparently can handle the titan protocol as well. But the site mechanics need to support that.

I have also tried to post using emacs/eww, the builtin webbrowser. I can log in, I can read posts, and write something short, I have not understood, how to enter something that is bigger than the entry field as shown in emacs/eww. But of course I attribute that to my lack of knowledge rather than anything else :)