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Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com
Wed Jul 7 14:09:34 BST 2021
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gemproj at suckless.anonaddy.com writes:
Hello geminauts
Yesterday I decided to add a feed to my gemlog and when I checked other
logs, most seem to feed XML or Atom. While I get that it's popular and
useful in existing clients, I am wondering why it's the de facto standard
in a protocol that favors a reduced markdown. XML always felt worse than
HTML to me, yet to do anything feed related in geminispace, I still need to
XML. Is it just me?
Best
~m
There's no need to serve atom feeds, you can just stick to the geminisubscriptions companion specification:
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gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/subscription.gmi
Fundamentally, a "subscribe"-able page is a page that contains somelinks in the form "YYYY-MM-DD - title"; then the various aggregators andclients can easily subscribe to that page. The linked page has someexamples too. It seems more widespread than atom feeds in the geminispace, at least in my experience.
I believe that some of us still serve atom/rss feeds just because we setup our capsules before that spec was a thing, or because we're alreadygenerating feeds for HTTP consumption.
HTH