馃懡 mntn

Thinking about how Gemini would be an OK frontend for Secure Scuttlebutt. Most of the current frontends are HTML, which requires a browser. A small SSB->Gemini server backed by something like go-ssb could help simplify the stack a bit.

3 years ago 路 馃憤 lykso, mc, kocka_collector

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馃懡 nristen

@mntn Thanks for mentioning this... I have spent some time researching this and am very interested. I especially like the offline feature since I believe way too many people take Internet access for granted. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 mntn

@nristen In my opinion it's the most promising decentralized social tool that's out there. The offline support and syncing is unbeatable, especially if you deal with intermittent power or network outages. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 lykso

@skyjake It looks like encoding spaces as pluses comes from the way that HTML forms are URL encoded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#The_application.2Fx-www-form-urlencoded_type

Web standards truly are a bit of a mess. 路 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#The_application.2Fx-www-form-urlencoded_type

馃懡 nristen

I had not heard of Scuttlebutt before: https://scuttlebutt.nz/ 路 3 years ago

https://scuttlebutt.nz/

馃懡 skyjake

@lykso I believe the plus thing is a Station issue... Plus is not a reserved URL character and does not need escaping. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 lykso

Titan & Gemini & SSB would be 馃檶.

(Sidebar: just learned that Lagrange doesn't escape plus signs in the text input before sending!) 路 3 years ago

馃懡 mntn

You'd probably need support from a sister protocol to handle long posts and file uploads, but for reading and short comments Gemini alone is enough. 路 3 years ago