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Re: "Has anyone built a Gemini Fediverse server?"
@istvan I agree. I can fetch the image from a URL or implement image upload (though Titan or some other protocol) with some dimensions+size limit, then optimize+convert the image. The biggest work item is the upload thing.
Feb 18 · 5 months ago
For now I just manually edited the db to add the necessary fields to my user, then updated username via gemini interface to trigger a fetch among followers’ servers.
Seems to work fine.
@istvan Forgot to update here - tootik now supports avatar upload over Titan
great. do you plan to support image uploads for posts?
@norayr As usual, the answer is 'currently no' 🫶
@dimkr this looks wonderful, and I really like that you've included a detailed code architecture breakdown! what did you use to make those diagrams?
@hedy The Wikipedia page for box drawing characters, ctrl+c and ctrl+v ☺️
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...
💬 Éamonn · 22 comments · 7 likes · 2023-12-31 · 6 months ago