Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Thu Apr 8 16:20:25 BST 2021
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Mansfield writes:
https://ondollo.com/mansfield currently offers free gemini hosting.
Thanks for asking, and thanks for writing up something to help
newcomers!
Hi! I'm deeply ambivalent about recommending your application to newusers. On the one hand, your app does *almost exactly* what I think isthe Right Thing for Gemini publishing: provide a unified native app forboth reading and publishing, with integrated account creation. Ihonestly want to commend you for that.
On the other hand, neither your client nor your server are FreeSoftware. I can't really recommend to new users to run an untrustedbinary that I can't provide any security/privacy assurances for. Despitemy interest, I haven't even run it myself, for that reason.
Likewise, the client locks the user into using your server forpublishing. While that's certainly the easiest approach starting out,I'd rather see an open standard for registration and publishing,preferably using existing protocols.
Again, thanks for doing this experiment, because I think it's the rightdirection for things to go; I just can't recommend it to new users atthis time.
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