Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Fri May 28 14:51:06 BST 2021
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Raph M. writes:
I was reading carcosa.net's "Re: Comments and pingbacks" article [1],
and I ended up thinking about what sort of conversation pattern makes
sense in Gemini-space.
Thanks for reading!
Gemini is human-focused, which implies to me that building a complicated
network of automated pingback/webmention/trackback-like things might
also be a poor fit. "Overkill" is the word that comes to mind.
I haven't actually published my notes on this, much less written animplementation (the last couple of months in my life have been *crazy*and all of my side projects have suffered), but one of the nice thingsabout the design as it's coming together in my notes is that sending ageminimention can be done from any Gemini client by following a link andpasting a URL. That's not clear from what I've published so far, ofcourse. One *could* automate it as part of a publishing workflow, butyou don't have to in order to participate.
I wanted to write a proof-of-concept before publishing a draft spec.
It is called "GemThread", and the current implementation is an SCGI
service designed to run under Molly Brown. Anyone _can_ run an instance
of it, but nobody _must_ run one.
The interaction pattern should feel relatively straightforward.
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Thanks for writing this. It looks pretty good; definitely easy tounderstand, and doesn't require self-hosting to participate. I think thegoals of this and Geminimentions are pretty separate. My main goal withGeminimentions is to help authors be notified of replies (which requiresthe participation of the people replying, to be sure). This seems more ameans of gathering replies into a thread, which is probably moregenerally useful, but also requires that all participants in theconversation be monitoring the same instance for replies...
Perhaps I'll publish my unfinished notes as a response on this thread...
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