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Frank Purcell arisbe at protonmail.com
Fri Feb 12 03:56:50 GMT 2021
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I am a total newbie here, looking to help people migrate from the mainline social media to something more like the Internet of the '90s. I don't know how folks on this list feel about gemlog.blue as a gateway drug, but signup and posting are about as simple as it gets, and you can post a proxy http link to your blog on any medium, or in email. Sooner or later the standard browsers will recognize the protocol and invoke a proxy, as some already do with ipfs.
Frank Palmer Purcell
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:15 AM, Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:
karmstrong at artorinix.com writes:
My responsibility is in the technology arena, and I have been toying
with the idea of bringing up a 'gentle introduction to gemini'. If
anyone has ideas as to what would be a good approach to bring new
people into the sphere, I would welcome them. Just like the very early
web, there was a higher-barrier to entry. Gemini has that now, but I
was thinking of a good step-by-step starter tutorial with some
explanations on how to get a person set up 1. on an existing gemini
hosting service 2. on their own server. What do you all think?
After a discussion with some friends on a private Matrix room a couple
days ago, I was convinced of the need for a kind of Gemini "quickstart"
for completely non-technical users.
I've registered geminiquickst.art, and have been writing content for it,
but I haven't actually set the server up. Probably soon, once the main
page is up. So far, I have been focusing on the even more basic issue of
"what is a Gemini client, and how do I install one?", because this is
actually the first sticking point that people run into. I'm also going
to address the issue of how to find things to read.
Hosting is going to be a bigger issue, IMO. To my eyes, sites like
flounder.online and midnight.pub go a long way to make getting a Gemini
presence set up easier, but in discussion with my less technical
friends, I learned that things about their sign-up processes can be
off-putting and feel unsafe. I have thoughts about how to handle this,
but for now, I'm probably going to punt on the hosting section.
I'd like to fairly rapidly get hosting a Gemini capsule to be "as
simple as hosting a Geocities site in 1996", and from there, make
progress towards "as simple as having a LiveJournal in 2004", the catch
being is that I want to do this with as little Web Platform technology
as possible, and preferably none.
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Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray at carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
| but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”
| ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow