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Station, a centralised social network on Gemini

Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com

Tue May 4 14:34:27 BST 2021

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And again and again, people show the power of simplicity, and workingwithin constraints. :) Great job!Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.com

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:53 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org>wrote:

Interesting experience, a social network based on Gemini:

gemini://station.martinrue.com/

(My personal feed is <gemini://station.martinrue.com/bortzmeyer> if

you're interested.)

This is quite experimental at this time, the source code is not even

released 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 (the

Identity menu, a small person on the left of the address bar, then

"New identity") or from outside. Here is an example to get a

certificate 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.crt

openssl 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.pem

lagrange 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 home

page <gemini://station.martinrue.com/> (otherwise, the certificate

will be used by Lagrange only for URLs under the prefix you

visit). Then, using the Identity menu, "Show identities", right click

on the one you created or imported and ask for this identity to be

used on that page.

After that, you can create your Station account at

<gemini://station.martinrue.com/join> and after that create entries in

the log, reply, etc.

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