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▣ 2023-08-29 Updated Capsule HOWTO with suggested edits - it's now listed on the Official Gemini FAQ, section 2.5.4!
▣ 2023-08-22 Added contact info and PGP key to landing / index page; finished draft of HOWTO; added more subscriptions to comitium feed
▣ 2023-08-09 Updated the Gemroll with new resources and started creating HOWTO on creating and managing capsules
▣ 2023-07-22 Added my own version of Antenna with a non-technical theme
▣ 2023-07-10 Added an anonymous feedback option to a few of my newer gemlogs
▣ 2023-07-03 Updated Books section to include links to gempub spec; added gempub reader software to books page
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I created a clone of Antenna and themed it for non-technical posts
DSN Antenna - a clone by @gritty
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I have a weblog / blog that I keep for items that aren't really meant for Gemini, or things that I want my non-gemini friends to be able to access. I use WriteFreely on a DigitalOcean droplet which allows both federation via ActivityPub AND creation of a #gopherhole that mirrors all content. I of course enabled both.
ActivityPub: @gritty@smallweb.space
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Gemroll - my list of helpful capsules and services
HOWTO - Setup and Manage a Capsule on a Server You Own
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‣ If you're not familiar with Gempub, it's basically a Gemini-compatible version of e-books that can be downloaded and read in clients like Lagrange
Gempub specification (local archive) [Markdown]
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I am a big proponent of online privacy. While it's debatable about the amount of privacy that the Gemini protocol provides, the key feature of Gemini is that there is no monetization of data collection on this platform, nor will there likely be any of any significance. I love this design feature and is one reason that I was drawn to this protocol in the first place.
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The Fediverse is collective term for services compatible with the ActivityPub protocol (social networking) standard [1]. There are other federation standards out there, but at this time, ActivityPub seems to be the most popular. If implemented properly, all ActivityPub-based projects can communicate with one another, and subscribe to other feeds. This means a person on Mastodon can follow someone on Friendica.
[1] ActivityPub Protocol on W3
Popular ActivityPub / Fediverse platforms are: Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Funkwhale, Peertube, Pixelfed, Writefreely, Bookwyrm, Misskey, Lemmy
Read more on the Fediverse platforms
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If you're on Gemini, then chances are you know what a Tilde is - a publicly shared Unix-like system that folks can log into for personal projects, socialization and blogging / writing. I personally remember these as "pubnixes" from back in the day, and I'm not really sure what qualifies one as a "tilde", but I can say that they are definitely an organized grouping of pubnixes, sharing a few common services. Depending on the server you choose there will be a different setup, meaning different pre-installed software, client rules, and overall culture of the Tilde's citizens.
I personally like these tildes because they are great text-only, command-line communities, free of corporate influence and ovesight. I personally am on tilde.club and like it there, and I often randomly surf the gemini capsules of the members there. Sometimes I find a good capsule that I bookmark, sometimes there's not much there other than the standard boilerplate. You can check out the Phlogroll / Gemroll section for places I've stumbled across.
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