Greetings Gemininauts! I am happy to announce an end to the era of the Zaibatsu being misappropriated as an ad-hoc home base for the Gemini project. From now on the official home of Gemini is at a dedicated server, gemini.circumlunar.space. It hosts the official Gemini documentation (FAQ, specification, best practices, lists of software and servers) via Gemini (currently, using jetforce, but this is only until I get the ball rolling, at long last, on my own server project) but also HTTPS (using shizaru) and Gopher (using Gophernicus). All 3 services should be listening on IPv4 and IPv6. Now when somebody asks you what Gemini is you can point them to at least the basics accessible via whatever protocol they prefer! In time, gemini.circumlunar.space will also offer free Gemini hosting, so that people who are interested in Gemini but lack the technical skills, free time or disposable income to setup their own server can start producing Gemini content. Also in time it will host an Atom-powered aggregator to make it easier for people to keep tabs on the growing community. Finally, inspired by bitreich's Gopher kiosk, you can `ssh kiosk at gemini.circumlunar.space` from any machine with an SSH client and get an AV-98 session to explore Geminispace without installing a client on your own machine. Clients other than AV-98 will slowly appear, e.g. Bombadillo will be available once the 2.0 release is made. I tried to add Asuka already but had trouble building it because apparently Debian Buster's Rust toolchain, which is only five months old, is already too old to actually build anything, because Rust people hate backwards compatibility, or something. :p Port 1965 will remain open at the Zaibatsu, offering a Gemini mirror of the gopherholes of only those users who have opted in to Gemini mirroring. Redirects are in place from the old URLs for official documents to the new server. All of this was put together relatively quickly, so it's likely there are some rough edges. Let me know if anything does not work as expected. Cheers, Solderpunk
solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:
> I am happy to announce an end to the era of the Zaibatsu being
> misappropriated as an ad-hoc home base for the Gemini project. From
> now on the official home of Gemini is at a dedicated server,
> gemini.circumlunar.space.
This is fantastic work! I shared the list archive link on the fediverse;
hope that's okay.
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