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New "Certificate and Key Validator" service to Kennedy — I added a "Certificate and Key Validator" service to Kennedy. This helps you figure out if a certificate/key change on a capsule is from a innocent change by the capsule owner, or a possible MITM attempt. Read me here: [gemini link] If I ever build a Gemin client, I would probably build something like this into it. (with a perference to disable). As in, if you access a capsule and it's cert/key is different, my client would check with...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 1 hour ago
— undefined.chaosconstructions.ru
Evil eyes capsule, check it out — Brand new, just wrote a bash script for it. Try to reload page multiple times.
💬 2 likes · Dec 23 · 5 days ago
openid in geminispace i was saying that there is no need in social networks since internet is a social network. we have sites, the updates is possibre to fetch anonymously via rss. but if we wanted to comment with our identity, then openid was the way. so rss+openid solves almost all what we use activity pub for (i was gonna write except private messages, but even private can be done). if we adopt something like openid or openid in geminispace, i think that will cover most of our needs....
💬 2 comments · Dec 20 · 9 days ago
Station BBS looks broken — [gemini link] - I want to register there, I have succeed creating a user certificate, sucessfully entered my nickname. And then I stuck, only option available for me now is the button called "Join station", which is strange, i have already joined. What should I do next? Is it normal behavior for Station BBS? Can I contact Station admin for assistance?
💬 4 comments · Dec 19 · 9 days ago
— deafeningcreationearthquake.flounder.online/img/konpeito.jpg
The best xmas gift — Here's what I'm giving a few friends this year. Pretty neat, right?
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · Dec 16 · 12 days ago
Infinite Scrolling and hyper personalization are evil — I miss the old BBS and forums long gone the few that exist are like ghost town. Once in a blue moon I go back and I remember vividly certain topics or obscure knowledge bits. The ability to navigate and map the information with section, broken down into topics and comments. The main page was the same for everybody and everybody knew what the other would get. Those are two things missing from the modern web. Both infinite scrolling and...
💬 13 comments · 11 likes · Dec 13 · 2 weeks ago
Whatever happened to Konpeito? — I was looking around the corners of Geminispace that I used to frequent, when I discovered that the Konpeito site is down, and seemingly has been for a while. A few people are hosting backup mirrors, but I'm interested to know what happened behind the scenes, if anyone knows anything. Mainly, I'm wondering why the project ended, and if there's any sort of alternative, sister project, or successor!
💬 2 comments · Dec 12 · 2 weeks ago
It's sad that Gemini is so small, but i think a slow growth is better than the boom that happened when DistroTube a nd a bunch of YouTubers made videos about it. A lot of people joined but then left afterwards. I did discover Gemini through them thought.
💬 3 comments · 4 likes · Dec 09 · 3 weeks ago
Google's Gemini AI — What do you all think of this? Does this naming choice have the potential to hurt the Gemini protocol? Or do you not care?
💬 13 comments · 2 likes · Dec 06 · 3 weeks ago
Wrote a review on Digital:A love story [gemini link]
💬 1 like · Dec 02 · 4 weeks ago
Got my capsule up again — I have got my capule up again at : [gemini link]
💬 5 comments · 1 like · Nov 26 · 5 weeks ago
Hello everyone, I'm new to Gemini. Recommend some interesting sites please
💬 7 comments · 1 like · Nov 08 · 7 weeks ago
building the graph of Gemini — Has anyone ever tried to graph the geminispace? I know there are a bunch of crawlers, but I can't find anything related to building a graph to visualize how geminispace is structured, what clusters it has, etc. I think it could be a good tool to explore new communities that you haven't seen yet, by traversing the graph.
💬 3 comments · Nov 07 · 7 weeks ago
My capsule mess I have a two years old capsule, more or less, anything the thing is that I started adding posts "just to try Gemini" so with no concerns for any file structure. Now it seems that I'm settled with chronological folder structure where my gemlog posts are in year/month/ But what do I do with my old posts? My guess is that I should move them to integrate them in the new structure, and add redirections to reflect their new locations... but that's something I've never done "by hand",...
💬 3 comments · Oct 26 · 2 months ago
— gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-10-14-orbital-fox-redux.gmi
Nice work @Acidus. 👏 Since you are displaying the email contents as preformatted text, it may not (should not, IMHO) be wrapped by clients to fit on the screen, though. Any chance you can wrap the long single-line paragraphs to a shorter max width? Of course, on mobile devices, preformatted text is not great but I can understand why you'd choose to use it here.
💬 5 comments · 3 likes · Oct 14 · 2 months ago
Would Gemini survive an attack by the mainstream commercial users out there? I keep wondering...i mean its wonderful that there's this great community of folks and a bunch of pretty useful advice and articles....but what happens when mainstream media and similar folks decide to move in? At the very least i'd imagine that they'd start posting click-baity attention grabbing articles....and overrun places like this - bbs....with their content. Are there any plans in place to prevent stuff like...
💬 7 comments · 2 likes · Sep 17 · 3 months ago
Gemini Space Demographics — Is there any data available about the Gemini Space demographics? Does this space appeal to the grey beards? Does it appeal to the youth, as an addition to the unsocial media apps? Who came, and moved on? Who stayed? I add a coarse poll on age, if you would like to take part.
💬 4 comments · 11 likes · Sep 12 · 4 months ago · 🗳️
— auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20230911.gmi
AuraGem Relaunch — I have just announced the relaunch of AuraGem! The address has changed to auragem.letz.dev. Most of the capsule should be as it was in 2022, aside from various updates and some things which I have taken down until they can be fixed (the music service and the starwars database). I was planning on waiting until I can pay for the original auragem domain, but I went with FreeDNS instead, which...
💬 14 comments · 4 likes · Sep 11 · 4 months ago
How to discuss a lengthy article from http land on gemspace? — I came across a fascinating (to me, anyway) article and wanted to share it here on gemspace for discussion. The only options I could think of were: 1. Just link to http (boo!) 2. Link to Newswaffle, if it works for this article and that’s allowed here. 3. Copy and paste the article The only one that seems right to me (it it works) is Newswaffle but I’m interested in opinions (esp. moderator / admin ones). Thoughts?
💬 3 comments · 1 like · Sep 04 · 4 months ago
Which search service do you recommend in Gemini space? — I’m currently using [gemini link] as my default in Lagrange. At the moment - and this could just be the nature of the contents of Gemini space currently - I get a lot of results for a library flooding my results. The results contain the terms I searched for, but that domain won’t have what I want. What are the alternatives and is there much difference anyway? Please let me know your preference.
💬 14 comments · 1 like · Sep 01 · 4 months ago
I'm Back!! — Hello! I'm back! For those who don't know, I'm Christian. I used to be called "krixano" and I was the one who ran AuraGem (formerly Ponix) before I was unable to continue paying the domain name. That was about 2 years ago. Since then, I have graduated with a B.A. in Theology and a minor in Computer Science I write articles on Theology and other topics on my new capsule now. This bbs capsule is really cool and well done! I'...
💬 2 comments · 6 likes · Sep 01 · 4 months ago
Thank you makeworld for your contributions to Geminispace! One benefit of having a protocol whose specification is not intended to change is that the current software can live on in maintenance mode, perhaps indefinitely. With any luck, Amfora today is just as good to browse Gemini with as it will be in the years to come.
💬 6 comments · 7 likes · Aug 06 · 5 months ago
— CIA World Factbook in gemtext
CIA World Factbook — I am working on converting the CIA World Factbook to gemtext. It is coming along pretty well, the original web version does not really use much more than three levels of headers anyway.
💬 5 comments · 11 likes · Aug 04 · 5 months ago
in web world, when the server software contains a web server, it is usually is designed to listen on some port, and then our main web server (apache/nginx/whatever) can be configured to proxy https to that port. in gemini world, we often have gemini projects that itself listen on 1965, but i guess/hope can be configured to listen on some other port. do we have a gemini server that can serve several capsules, and 'proxypass' requests to different ports? (i have my snobbish reasons to also...
💬 3 comments · Jul 21 · 5 months ago
Please excuse me, if this is the wrong subspace to ask for this, but where can I find the source code to the following capsule? [gemini link]
💬 1 comment · Jul 18 · 5 months ago
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