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Medium.com proxy

Jonathan Lane jon at dorsal.tk

Sat Feb 13 22:24:46 GMT 2021

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I think this would be a lot less legally dicey if it were something you could run on your own LAN, akin to a caching proxy like Squid. Offload the HTTP mangling and content scraping to a dedicated system and point your Gemini clients at it.

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Saturday, February 13, 2021 2:18 PM, Waweic <waweic at activ.ism.rocks> wrote:

On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 10:33 +0100, b10m wrote:

Hey all,

As I see more and more fun projects arise, I hacked up a quick

medium.com proxy for gemini. Medium tends to offer long reads with

mostly just text, so it's perfect content for gemeni!

Have a look at gemini://b10m.net/cgi-bin/medium and paste your https

medium URL[1]

Thanks for creating this great project, I really like it.

Apart from the Copyright thing (it sucks) I think this project is

really cool. If you are willing to share the source code, I would be

hosting one instance of this over Tor (As I do with other stuff).

I don't think there's a big difference between your platform and things

like, for example, Invidious, Nitter, Bibliogram or even Drew Devaults

HackerNews script. It simply makes reading a lot more pleasant.

I really like reading in my Gemini client and it sucks that so much

content is only published on Medium.

I say take back the web. Copying culture is part of it. The thing you

do absolutely is in the spirit of the early web, including free

availability of information, to everyone.

People on mobile, with data caps, in rural regions of the US (or

Germany for that matter, or quite a lot of other countries) also have a

right to access this content, in my opinion. Your project is great

for that.

Thanks again, you are my hero of the day