Hi geminauts, Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem. As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the mentions and the tag of a toot. I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you. The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope). All the information about MastoGem is now here : gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/ Romain.
On 3/5/2021 2:00 AM, Romain de Laage wrote: > Hi geminauts, > > Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem. > > As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon > profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the > mentions and the tag of a toot. > > I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want > help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you. > > The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope). > > All the information about MastoGem is now here : > gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/ > > Romain. > So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica, etc.? Or do you know if it works with some of them? I ask because I finally manged to retire my Mastodon servers. It took over a year to kick everyone off of them gracefully lol. I don't care an awful lot for Mastodon (Yet do maintain a couple of accounts on a couple of Mastodon servers). The whole premise of Twitter's original 160 chars (Now Mastodon's default 500 char limit) just doesn't work for me and all of the clients splitting long posts across several different 'toots' makes it even worse. Other ActivityPub servers enable actual Tuts, HowTos, Blogs and Articles, etc., something Mastodon is not well suited, nor intended for. As such, if one doesn't mind that resources it requires it's fine. But a tool such as yours sounds awesome if it supports ActivityPub servers in General, especially Epicyon, Misskey, and Pleroma. The others would be a huge bonus, and fantastic news, but to me, Mastodon alone really isn't the niche platform I'm looking to support in .gmi files. Great work though, and your demo looks pretty awesome? If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :) Again, I think MastoGem is a fantastic accomplishment! Kindest regards, -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services http://NorthTech.US TEL: +1.310.421.8268
On 3/5/2021 9:43 AM, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: > > > On 3/5/2021 2:00 AM, Romain de Laage wrote: >> Hi geminauts, >> >> Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem. >> >> As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon >> profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the >> mentions and the tag of a toot. >> >> I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want >> help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you. >> >> The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope). >> >> All the information about MastoGem is now here : >> gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/ >> >> Romain. >> > > So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the > Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed, > Friendica, etc.? > > Or do you know if it works with some of them? > > I ask because I finally manged to retire my Mastodon servers. It took > over a year to kick everyone off of them gracefully lol. I don't care an > awful lot for Mastodon (Yet do maintain a couple of accounts on a couple > of Mastodon servers). The whole premise of Twitter's original 160 chars > (Now Mastodon's default 500 char limit) just doesn't work for me and all > of the clients splitting long posts across several different 'toots' > makes it even worse. > > Other ActivityPub servers enable actual Tuts, HowTos, Blogs and > Articles, etc., something Mastodon is not well suited, nor intended for. > As such, if one doesn't mind that resources it requires it's fine. > > But a tool such as yours sounds awesome if it supports ActivityPub > servers in General, especially Epicyon, Misskey, and Pleroma. The others > would be a huge bonus, and fantastic news, but to me, Mastodon alone > really isn't the niche platform I'm looking to support in .gmi files. > > Great work though, and your demo looks pretty awesome? > > If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some > of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working > toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server > is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :) > > Again, I think MastoGem is a fantastic accomplishment! > > Kindest regards, um... I think I spoke a little too soon. Just searching on a tag on the prod server pulled in several posts of mine from a Pleroma server, faster, and more efficiently than any search on a Mastodon or Pleroma server ever would. I'm extremely, thoroughly impressed. This is really good shit! Example: gemini://mastogem.picasoft.net/tag?vger I'mma sold on Mastogem already :) What a great way to author Gemlogs! And the best part is, as a proxy, it pulls from HTTP space *into* Gemini space, and not the other way around, which strips bloat and presents the content itself as text/gemini. Yah, this is fricken' awesome! > > -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services http://NorthTech.US TEL: +1.310.421.8268
Glancing at the code, it uses the mastodon API. So it uses mastodon as a "backend" (otherwise they'd have to write a full activitypub backend from scratch, which is unreasonable to expect), but you can see all activitypub content just like you could see it on mastodon. ~nytpu -- Alex // nytpu alex at nytpu.com GPG Key: https://www.nytpu.com/files/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint: 43A5 890C EE85 EA1F 8C88 9492 ECCD C07B 337B 8F5B https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210305/45a6 486b/attachment.sig>
> So.... This only works with Mastodon, and Not ActivityPub servers in the > Fediverse such as Pleroma, Epicyon, Jejune, Misskey, PeerTube, Pixelfed, > Friendica, etc.? It was originally designed to be a mirror of a Mastodon account so to make things easier I only use the Mastodon API. So it only works with Mastodon content. We can view some content from other services like PeerTube (an example here : gemini://mastogem.picasoft.net/profile/374759) if the instance is federated with the Mastodon instance used for MastoGem but it is only the content shown in Mastodon (not the video or the blog post). > If it doesn't support Fediverse ActivityPub in general, or at least some > of the one's I've mentioned above, and you're not adverse to working > toward bringing that support, I can open an issue on your Gitea server > is you like and work diligently with you to bring such functionality :) I will not have a lot of time to spend in this functionality until July but it is a great idea. Thank you very much for this feedback
Hi, Today I released the 1.1 version of MastoGem it include little enhancements and bug fixes. You can now configure a rate limit for requests to prevent your instance to be blocked by the remote Mastodon instance if a crawler is visiting it. All the information about this release is here : gemini://rdelaage.ovh/blog/003-mastogem-release-1.1.gmi Romain. Le 05/03/2021 à 11:00, Romain de Laage a écrit : > Hi geminauts, > > Today i would like to announce the first true release of MastoGem. > > As I announced before you can view the last toots from a Mastodon profile, but you can also search for a tag, view a thread and view the mentions and the tag of a toot. > > I have made a docker image to make the deployment easier and if you want help to deploy your own instance of MastoGem I can help you. > > The software works fine and respect Gemini specs (I hope). > > All the information about MastoGem is now here : gemini://rdelaage.ovh/mastogem/ > > Romain. >
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