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Has anyone built a Gemini Fediverse server?

I just discovered Gemini today, and it is a fascinating approach to the Internet.

One possibility that seems interesting is to build a Fediverse server with a Gemini front-end.

It would have the following properties:

Identity would be a Gemini certificate.

The identity would be communicated in ActivePub as a hash/fingerprint of the public key. For example as @uyzwisfenxq3ydha@gemini.social

Posts would be just Gemini input (10) requests with all the post text in the single 1024 character query parameter

The main view would be a sequence of posts of followed accounts from anywhere on the Fediverse.

All the usual Mastodon features (like, boost, follow) would be implemented by clicking on links under posts

Has anyone built anything like this? Does it make sense?

Posted in: s/Fediverse

🚀 Éamonn

2023-12-31 · 5 weeks ago · 👍 Minko_Ikana, pkitz, n3m3516, istvan · 🤘 1

10 Comments ↓

🐙 norayr · Dec 31 at 00:48:

yes, dimkr created tootik

— https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/

it is amazing.

🐙 norayr · Dec 31 at 00:51:

author's instance՝

— hd.206267.xyz/

🚀 Éamonn [OP] · Dec 31 at 01:05:

Very cool. Trying it now ...

🚀 Minko_Ikana · Dec 31 at 01:07:

"and it is a fascinating approach to the Internet."

It sure is... :)

🚀 Éamonn [OP] · Dec 31 at 01:51:

— hd.206267.xyz/users/view/eb992209711b25c1c0e1a4ccef13e9d46144c879f36b6b8adef5796a5f39e501

🚀 Éamonn [OP] · Dec 31 at 01:53:

Above is my first tootkit post,

It was cool to see it federated to my Mastodon instance and be able to reply there

😈 dimkr · Dec 31 at 17:18:

Thanks all, I don't know why but I see interest in the project growing (maybe thanks to Meta? :D) and I'm really glad to receive feedback. I hope to see more instances and more contributors in 2024 :)

🐧 istvan · Jan 23 at 15:50:

Thank so much for your work. I threw up a tootik server too. Took a little figuring out, but eventually was able to follow people on other instances. Pretty happy with how it works. Only improve I can think of is avatar support for when people view you from the foreign servers.

😈 dimkr · Jan 25 at 16:58:

@istvan I'll add a link to a user's avatar, above the summary text. Thanks for the feedback, I'm always glad to see new users and especially new instances.

🐧 istvan · Jan 29 at 14:58:

Actually I meant set a link to your own avatar. Right now it looks like something randomly generated. But your response is a great idea too!