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From: bacardi55 <bac@rdi55.pl>
Subject: Re: Geminisphere via backlinks
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:13:22 +0200
Message-ID: <20220407101322.scqndembuaqc6rdx@rdi55.pl>
Hi Matt,
> A "simple" solution would be going to the capsule, find the contact
> of the author and send an email… But not every capsule has a contact
> page and the process is very manual, requiring to use another tool and
> protocol to communicate.
It seems to me that the whole point of application protocols like e-mail,
IRC, netnews, and Gemini itself is to accomplish a specific task. Yes, you
can extend most of them to do what the other does (I used to run an IRC to
e-mail bridge for reasons best left to history) but why? Anything powerful
enough to run Gemini can certainly run e-mail or netnews.
I'd love to know the source of the sentiment and if it happens to be an
aversion to 'switching applications', I'm sure a member of the church of
emacs will step up with alacrity.
I don't have an "aversion to switching applications" :). I'm fine
opening neomutt to send an email or weechat to have a direct convo :)
(And no, I don't need to switch to emacsOS :) </troll>)
The main reason for me doing this was:
Not everyone wants to put their email address publicly available.
I've been "blocked" multiple time trying to find a contact info in a
capsule without finding one to reach out to the author.
This could be true for the author of the response too (not wanting
to share email address).
This made me think about a solution that doesn't require sharing any
more information that you want/need on your capsule.
Then this idea morphed into finding a "standard" type of solution for
other interested too.
To be honest, I disagree with the fact that this is against gemini,
and seems that even solderpunk had some thoughts about this way back:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/replies-in-geminispace.gmi
At the end of the day, it was for me a fun exercise to think, write
and code around this solution, even if it's not used :] 🤷
Cheers,
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bacardi55 - https://bacardi55.io/ - gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io
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