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Station, a centralised social network on Gemini

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Tue May 4 10:49:34 BST 2021

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Interesting experience, a social network based on Gemini:

gemini://station.martinrue.com/

(My personal feed is <gemini://station.martinrue.com/bortzmeyer> ifyou're interested.)

This is quite experimental at this time, the source code is not evenreleased yet<gemini://station.martinrue.com/rdelaage/281c0c04664143b0956d2573165ace23>. And,at the current time, it is centralized<gemini://station.martinrue.com/adele/5c225167813e4e2badb3a156e4f9a686>.

If you want to use Lagrange to connect, a few tips:

First, you need a client certificate. You can do it from Lagrange (theIdentity menu, a small person on the left of the address bar, then"New identity") or from outside. Here is an example to get acertificate with elliptic curves (because we can) with OpenSSL:

openssl ecparam -out key-user.pem -name prime256v1 -genkey openssl req -new -subj /CN=Me -sha256 -nodes -key key-user.pem -out cert-user.crtopenssl x509 -days 1000 -in cert-user.crt -out cert-user.pem -req -signkey key-user.pem cat cert-user.pem key-user.pem

import-with-lagrange.pemlagrange import-with-lagrange.pem

Then you can use the Identity menu to import your certificate.

Next, when you navigate to Station, be sure to first visit the homepage <gemini://station.martinrue.com/> (otherwise, the certificatewill be used by Lagrange only for URLs under the prefix youvisit). Then, using the Identity menu, "Show identities", right clickon the one you created or imported and ask for this identity to beused on that page.

After that, you can create your Station account at<gemini://station.martinrue.com/join> and after that create entries inthe log, reply, etc.