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 When I say "geocities moment" I don't mean "Easy" exactly. Geocities was compelling. It was exciting to use. It made you feel like a part of a community. I understand what I want out of gemini, but I don't want that in isolation. I want to find and/or build the things that make gemini compelling for other people to use. 14 comments
Yeah! When I was a regular on a tilde, it was a great place for lots of little small web services and gopherholes. There is a fair amount of that kind of meta meta sometimes, but I usually enjoy myself. @ajroach42 does gemini potentially have utility for avoiding corporate-governmental censorship and surveillance? @Ethancdavenport Lots of utility for avoiding corporate surveillance, not so much government.  @ajroach42 Geocities also was one of the most horrid spam / website collection ever. Having a site there meant to have to endure having a well-done site basically littered with awful blinking gif animated, HUGE banner ads .. EVERYWHERE. not to mention being the training grounds for popup blockers. xD @ajroach42 it is simply addendum to the "using geocities as glorious example for anything", which has become a "trendy thing nowadays. We cannot @ginsterbusch I was there, I remember what it was like. I believe it was a net good, and I'd rather not fight about it. Alright. I'm back on this bullshit today. What's your favorite gemini server? I've been using gmnisrv, and it's fine! But I'm open to other suggestions. Basically, I'm going to build a Limited Tilde or a GeminiBBS for myself and maybe two or three other folks. If it works well, we'll harden it, open source it, and open sign-ups.  @ajroach42 I'm still using gmnisrv because I just can't be bothered to spend time on changing it since it works fine. There are some that have CGI though if you want to do fancier stuff than I do. |
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@ajroach42 I feel like an integration with a tilde would help here. but again idk, when I was bigger into tildes they all seemed to blur into varying degrees of "computer programming on a shared computer programming server" which I think is too close to "using the protocol to write about using the protocol"