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I was excited to see that a new 'publication' sprung up on Gemini. I really like smolzine. And I love Antenna.
So when I couldn't open it, I was somewhat dismayed. It is not in a format any gemini browser recognizes. So days passed until I bothered to open it as an epub, and awful html book format which is just as bad as the main web (it allows publishers to stick in tracking bugs, and hide all kinds of nonsense in general layers of CSS and javascript). Yech.
What's in it? It's like a handful of gemini links from Antenna, from a few days back, packed as an ebook for some reason. There are links to other gemini content, but my epub browser just gives up. WTF.
w2 had even less in it than w1.
What exactly is this for? Am I missing something?
I don't like putting down someone's effort, but I just don't get it. There must be a purpose, but it really needs some work.
P.S. While I get that someone may want to for some reason read gemlogs on their bookreader, it kind of defeats the purpose of interactive content and linkage. There is a healthy discussion of tools that work offline, but this doesn't help.