Howdy ~davidvkimball, nice to meet you.
~bartender? A jar of that home made lemonade, please. It's going to be a hot day, pheewww. Thanks!
I don't remember exactly, how I got to know about this special place. But I have been on the gemini mailing list early, and for however long it existed. It died from some sort of hardware stroke, poor thing. Rest in peace!
What keeps me in gemini:// space, you ask? Well, I hate html? And markdown and Python? Hmmm. I have tried to publish a bit in .html, but hated it. Too much attention to details needed. However, I was immediately taken in by gemtexts simplicity. So my site is practically gemini only, after having dabbled a bit with a gemini-2-html shell script. Oh, well, simplicity, I guess, would be the short answer. And the right to view everything in my chosen size of jetbrains-mono font. I don't agree to those, who try to add styling to gemtext over and over again. I might even be unable to read it. That starts with emojis by the way. Never got the hang of it. With the possible exception of :-)
What keeps me here at The Midnight? Well, almost everyone volunteers to adhere to the Pub Theme. Some patrons use subtle language, which stretches my non-native limits quite a bit. But all in all, it is so much more pleasing.
Cheers!
~davidvkimball wrote (thread):
Hey ~ew, thanks for sharing a bit of your story. I agree the atmosphere here is quite lovely, and it seems like many would benefit from a quieter, more serene place to stay once and a while amidst the chaos and confusing of The Current Year™.
I'm interested in gemini, I've seen it references here or there, can you help me understand how I can participate and get involved in that?
Edit: actually, I found this resource!
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq-section-1.gmi