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[Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

Rev. Fr. Robert Bower frrobert at frrobert.com

Sat Jun 12 04:10:27 BST 2021

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In addition to the three already mentioned; the mailing list, the irc channel, and station, there is microblogging.

Drew from Trendy Talk came up with a Tinylog format and a program called Lace that take Tinylogs from different Gemini sites and puts them in chronological order.

The use of the format and the use of Lace has somewhat morphed from just a way to read Tinylogs to a kind of Twitter for Gemini.

adele at pollux.casa has worked on improving the format along with bacardi55 at gmi.bacardi55.io who is creating an rfc for Tiny Logs gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2021/06/tinylog-rfc.gmi

bacardi55 at gmi.bacardi55.io is also working on a microblogging client called gtl written in GO.

https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl

Drew has passed the baton to me in terms of developing Lace which can be now found at https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/lace/-/tree/dev Please use the dev branch it should run faster than the main branch. I haven't got around to moving branches around. I hope in the next week or so to make the dev branch the main branch.

Please come and join the fun.

Fr. Robertgemini://frrobert.net

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote:

I have sent the past week sorting through old material both from my aborted

attempt to gopher as well as a selection of old blogspot posts I had made,

as well as other general 'ehstbdo I want to migrate over' material.

Through that whole time I peek in at Twitter, diffrent discourse forums,

older pho based forums (most notesbly brass goggles.) And on and on..

Which has left me pondering how 'we' would handle communities, or even if

'we' should.

There is as far as I am aware, without going to http/s:

* Mailing lists. Which are nice enough, but it just feels cluttered. Maybe

it's just me, but I get all these mail notifications and 'im genuinely

disinterested in most of these why am I here.' which is an inverse of how I

am with forums. Just sorta mentally sort out what ai don't care about and

focus on what I want. Maybe it's something on my end. Or is 'me' specific,

but if the Gemini discussions primarily happened on a non mailing list

format with an included mailing list? I wouldn't bother with the list

format.

* BBS; see I like BBS:s, but they suffer similar problems to gopher in that

technically thee is still development, but it all has this problem of

feeling archaic. Maybe a client can fix that, but it is a very, in my

enthusiast it non technical opinion, kindof intimidating to try starting.

I like how BBS's work, but there appears to be a not High but not low

barrier to starting up and keeping the ball rolling.

I don't even know if this post will get any traction or if I am

overthinking things, but it would be nice tohave a way to have low

bandwidth communities. However I don't want that feature set as part of

Gemini. Just... Something Gemini like that focuses on this need....

Assuming it doesn't already exist.

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