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[ANN] Release 1.0 of MastoGem

1. Romain de Laage (romain.delaage (a) rdelaage.ovh)

Hi geminauts,

Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem.

As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon 
profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the 
mentions and the tag of a toot.

I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want 
help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you.

The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope).

All the information about MastoGem is now here : 
gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/

Romain.

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2. Bradley D. Thornton (Bradley (a) NorthTech.US)



On 3/5/2021 2:00 AM, Romain de Laage wrote:
> Hi geminauts,
> 
> Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem.
> 
> As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon
> profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the
> mentions and the tag of a toot.
> 
> I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want
> help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you.
> 
> The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope).
> 
> All the information about MastoGem is now here :
> gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/
> 
> Romain.
> 

So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the
Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed,
Friendica, etc.?

Or do you know  if it works with some of them?

I ask because I finally manged to retire my Mastodon servers. It took
over a year to kick everyone off of them gracefully lol. I don't care an
awful lot for Mastodon (Yet do maintain a couple of accounts on a couple
of Mastodon servers). The whole premise of Twitter's original 160 chars
(Now Mastodon's default 500 char limit) just doesn't work for me and all
of the clients splitting long posts across several different 'toots'
makes it even worse.

Other ActivityPub servers enable actual Tuts, HowTos, Blogs and
Articles, etc., something Mastodon is not well suited, nor intended for.
As such, if one doesn't mind that resources it requires it's fine.

But a tool such as yours sounds awesome if it supports ActivityPub
servers in General, especially Epicyon, Misskey, and Pleroma. The others
would be a huge bonus, and fantastic news, but to me, Mastodon alone
really isn't the niche platform I'm looking to support in .gmi files.

Great work though, and your demo looks pretty awesome?

If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some
of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working
toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server
is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :)

Again, I think MastoGem is a fantastic accomplishment!

Kindest regards,


-- 
Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
http://NorthTech.US
TEL: +1.310.421.8268

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3. Bradley D. Thornton (Bradley (a) NorthTech.US)



On 3/5/2021 9:43 AM, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/5/2021 2:00 AM, Romain de Laage wrote:
>> Hi geminauts,
>>
>> Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem.
>>
>> As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon
>> profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the
>> mentions and the tag of a toot.
>>
>> I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want
>> help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you.
>>
>> The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope).
>>
>> All the information about MastoGem is now here :
>> gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/
>>
>> Romain.
>>
> 
> So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the
> Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed,
> Friendica, etc.?
> 
> Or do you know  if it works with some of them?
> 
> I ask because I finally manged to retire my Mastodon servers. It took
> over a year to kick everyone off of them gracefully lol. I don't care an
> awful lot for Mastodon (Yet do maintain a couple of accounts on a couple
> of Mastodon servers). The whole premise of Twitter's original 160 chars
> (Now Mastodon's default 500 char limit) just doesn't work for me and all
> of the clients splitting long posts across several different 'toots'
> makes it even worse.
> 
> Other ActivityPub servers enable actual Tuts, HowTos, Blogs and
> Articles, etc., something Mastodon is not well suited, nor intended for.
> As such, if one doesn't mind that resources it requires it's fine.
> 
> But a tool such as yours sounds awesome if it supports ActivityPub
> servers in General, especially Epicyon, Misskey, and Pleroma. The others
> would be a huge bonus, and fantastic news, but to me, Mastodon alone
> really isn't the niche platform I'm looking to support in .gmi files.
> 
> Great work though, and your demo looks pretty awesome?
> 
> If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some
> of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working
> toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server
> is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :)
> 
> Again, I think MastoGem is a fantastic accomplishment!
> 
> Kindest regards,


um... I think I spoke a little too soon. Just searching on a tag on the
prod server pulled in several posts of mine from a Pleroma server,
faster, and more efficiently than any search on a Mastodon or Pleroma
server ever would. I'm extremely, thoroughly impressed. This is really
good shit!

Example: gemini://mastogem.picasoft.net/tag?vger

I'mma sold on Mastogem already :) What a great way to author Gemlogs!

And the best part is, as a proxy, it pulls from HTTP space *into* Gemini
space, and not the other way around, which strips bloat and presents the
content itself as text/gemini.

Yah, this is fricken' awesome!

> 
> 

-- 
Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
http://NorthTech.US
TEL: +1.310.421.8268

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4. Alex // nytpu (alex (a) nytpu.com)

Glancing at the code, it uses the mastodon API.  So it uses mastodon as
a "backend" (otherwise they'd have to write a full activitypub backend
from scratch, which is unreasonable to expect), but you can see all
activitypub content just like you could see it on mastodon.

~nytpu

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5. Romain de Laage (romain.delaage (a) rdelaage.ovh)

> So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the
> Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed,
> Friendica, etc.?

It was originally designed to be a mirror of a Mastodon account so to make 
things easier I only use the Mastodon API. So it only works with Mastodon content.
We can view some content from other services like PeerTube (an example 
here : gemini://mastogem.picasoft.net/profile/374759) if the instance is 
federated with the Mastodon instance used for MastoGem but it is only the 
content shown in Mastodon (not the video or the blog post).

> If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some
> of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working
> toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server
> is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :)

I will not have a lot of time to spend in this functionality until July 
but it is a great idea.

Thank you very much for this feedback

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6. Romain de Laage (romain.delaage (a) rdelaage.ovh)

Hi,

Today I released the 1.1 version of MastoGem it include little 
enhancements and bug fixes. You can now configure a rate limit for 
requests to prevent your instance to be blocked by the remote Mastodon 
instance if a crawler is visiting it.

All the information about this release is here : 
gemini://rdelaage.ovh/blog/003-mastogem-release-1.1.gmi

Romain.

Le 05/03/2021 Γ  11:00, Romain de Laage a Γ©critΒ :
> Hi geminauts,
> 
> Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem.
> 
> As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon 
profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the 
mentions and the tag of a toot.
> 
> I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want 
help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you.
> 
> The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope).
> 
> All the information about MastoGem is now here : gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/
> 
> Romain.
>

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