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Glossary for Geminispace

Geminispace has a lot of new words and shorthand, that can make some things hard to read and even hard to understand, so I made a glossary.

C is for Cat

Capsule - A Gemini server or container, a place to host your own gemtext and gemlog
Capsuleer - A person that runs a capsule in Geminispace, sometimes has a mixed meaning along the lines of Geminaut
Cert/Certificate - Is an authentication method used with the Gemini protocol, they are used for encrypting the connection and for creating identities

F is for Fish

Feed - A list of gemtext files, might be known from RSS or Atom feeds

G is for Giraffe

Geminaut - A person who uses Geminispace
Gemini protocol - What Geminispace is made of, envisioned by Solderpunk, see Links
Geminispace - Where we are currently, the part of the internet that was born on the Gemini protocol
Gemlog - A Gemini log, derived from "web log" → "blog", "gopher log" → "phlog"
Gemtext - Gemini's page format and how you would write gemlogs, it is only in UTF-8 with LF or CRLF line endings and filenames end in .gmi or .gemini
Gopher - What inspired the Gemini protocol, invented in 1991 as a competing idea to http/www, with an even simpler concept than Gemini

M is for Monkey

Misfin - Named after the Manned Space Flight Network, is basically a messaging protocol like e-mail, but built after the Gemini protocol ideals, see Links

N is for Nest

Nex protocol - Another simplified protocol, inspired by Gopher and Gemini, see Links

S is for Snake

Smolspace/smolnet - A name for the small in file size internet protocols, like Gemini and Gopher
Smallspace/smallnet/small web - Kind of the same as smolspace, but there is some debate on what protocols belong to the name
Spartan protocol - A simple two way protocol, that supports Gemtext and has no encryption, see Links

T is for Turtle

Titan protocol - A sister protocol to Gemini, that allows for editing of longer content in the browser, through the Gemini protocol, see Links
TLS - Transport Layer Security, the security protocol Gemini requires for encryption, it uses certificates and requires version 1.2, but recommends 1.3
TOFU - Trust-On-First-Use, refers to how encryption certificates are handled in the Gemini protocol

Z is for Zebra

Zine/smolzine - Zine is a small shortening of magazine and is basically tiny online magazines

Links

Gemini protocol

Titan protocol

Misfin server (certificate is expired)

Spartan protocol

Nex protocol