馃懡 jo

How did you discover the gemini project?

For me it was browsing neocities sites and finding the yesterweb webring which lead me to gemini://cities.yesterweb.org

2 years ago 路 馃憤 superfxchip, ruby_witch, basil_mori, mimas, turtlebard

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馃懡 smokey

I saw some youtube videos about it last year from some popular linux/FOSS influencers like DT, mentaloutlaw, and chris were 路 2 years ago

馃懡 turtlebard

On Monday I stumbled across a tilde.club page in the wild and, like scientiac, found James Tomasino's video about the Tildeverse. His "What is Gemini?" video played next. By Wednesday I had my own Gemini server running. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 zero

I discovered it through comp.infosystems.gemini on usenet. I think I found out because this was one of the most recent additions to newsgroups and I got curious about it. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 scientiac

via DT on YouTube, then came into it via Tildeverse following James Tomasino's Video 路 2 years ago

馃懡 dimkr

I discovered it through Drew Devault's blog and multiple YouTube channels 路 2 years ago

馃懡 mimas

A friend said I should take a look at Gemini. Then I saw a post from CCC Freiburg. Now quite convinced by the Gemini community. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 eph

I think I found the webpage for Lagrange directly, actually. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 superfxchip

I heard about it the other year after attempting to find alternate protocols, but had only heard small bits and pieces in passing. Instead I dived into stuff like freenet and i2p for a bit til i got bored of em and decided to give gemini a shot after listening to the yesterweb podcast ep bout it and diving in via cities.yesterweb.org early this year in April/May. Never looked back since. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 basil_mori

As you can probably guess pretty easily I came in the same way. I decided to stay since geminispace is really chill but still has people makinging some very interesting things. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 ruby_witch

Although I did hear about gemini just recently, I used to use gopher back in the early 90's before www access was supported by my ISP. It's a very nostalgic experience for me. :) 路 2 years ago

馃懡 aelspire

I learned about it on Drew DeVault's blog but was not interested enough to check it until I heard about it a few more times from different sources. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 bavarianbarbarian

Browsing wikipedia. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 johano

don't precisely recall, but I think I saw something about it on Mastodon 路 2 years ago

馃懡 jsreed5

I discovered Gopher after leaving social media in 2020 and searching for simpler, decentralized Internet spaces, which led me to SDF. Someone there mentioned Gemini in one of their phlogs, which led me here. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 msz

I saw something about Gopher in one thread on Torum (social media for cryptocurrency weirdos). I'm learning about RESTful, so I was naturally tempted to learn more about different protocols than HTTP. So far I love how text-centered Gemini capsules are 路 2 years ago

馃懡 ruby_witch

I read about it in 2600 magazine! Definitely glad that I did, I prefer the interface to html browsing by far. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 whixr

A cool person at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest taught me the secret handshake to get in here :) 路 2 years ago

馃懡 moddedbear

There was a lot of talk about it on the fediverse and videos being made about it a while back. One of the big things that drew me in was how easy it looked to set up a server and update it. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 tm85

An acquaintance pointed me here after they saw my website was pure HTML 路 2 years ago

馃懡 averphos

Saw it mentioned a number of times on hacker news, and at some point I got curious enough (and frustrated enough with the html web) to check it out. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 cinni

i'm in the yesterweb discord and someone had mentioned it there, then eventually yestercities got made and here i am ^-^ 路 2 years ago