Greetings! My name is Jessica, and I stumbled across the concept of Gemini just recently through Mastodon. Someone I follow(ed? I think he deleted his account) was quite enthusiastic about it, and eventually that prompted me to come check it out. For a while now I've had some interest in variations of the "small web" concept, and Gemini seems like an interesting implementation of that. A text-centric protocol where malfeasance is thwarted because you just don't have that many options to be malfeasant with? Where styling is in the hands of the *reader*, not the *content creator*? It's kind of like ebooks, but for the web. Anyway, it looked cool enough to play around with.
I do pay for web hosting where I host a site in HTTPS space (I'll pop a link down below), but I couldn't manage to get a Gemini server up and running there. Honestly, I lack the technical nous to debug things like that if they don't work straight away ā my "coding" skills are limited to HTML and CSS, and only as much PHP as I've ever needed to make a Wordpress theme. I can use SFTP, SSH, and terminal text editors like nano just fine, but that only really helps me once I have a stable, functional server. I haven't totally given up, but I decided I'd have an easier time just dipping my toes into Gemini space on someone else's server, and Gemlog.blue seemed like a *very* beginner-friendly way to do that š Flounder.online was another tempting option, but considering I already have places to post my content in HTTPS space, I preferred the idea of something that's "Gemini only" (although I know there are proxies).
To introduce myself a bit more thoroughly (!), I'm a socialist living in Melbourne, Australia with my boyfriend/partner Vivian and our delightful tabby cat, Gidget. I love animals, books, gaming, and cooking; Iām also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society. I imagine the content I'll post to this space being very similar, if not exactly the same (because no images), as the things I post to HTTPS space. If you want, here are some of the places you can find me over there:
Jayeless.net, my personal website
The Jayeless.net Microblog, hosted on Micro.blog
My Mastodon account, @jayeless@todon.nl
Obviously I have other profiles too (you'll find many of them linked on the above sites!) but those are what I consider my "main" online presences. Hopefully this will not be the last you see of me in Gemini space š