Hacker News over Gemini

https://portal.drewdevault.com/2020/11/08/HN-over-Gemini.gmi

by divbzero • 6 years ago

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mPReDiToR• 6 years ago

This, in a perfect world, would be the function of a service the size of GitHub.

Take the dross out of the web and serve it to those with the skills (and/or determination) to spend their attention in a dramatically different way to the vacuous consumers of media who turn thwir brains off for hours a day playing Farmville (or whatever the latest cycle burner is on Farcebook).

What an amazing development, I hope nobody comes along and poisons the process for profit.

rbanffy• 6 years ago

and serve it to those with the skill

I often joke that making computers easy to use was, in retrospect, a huge mistake.

buggeryorkshire• 6 years ago

What on earth is Gemini?

kwk1• 6 years ago

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

arkitaip• 6 years ago

The reactionary alternative to the web: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

lyxsus2• 6 years ago

Why?

sturza• 6 years ago

are there also images?

Jaruzel• 6 years ago

As a big gopher user[1] I feel that Gemini was born out the frustration of gopher not having a standard SSL mechanism. There's been several attempts to weld SSL onto gopher resulting in a fractured landscape. One of the major desires is to not break legacy clients which makes implementation tricky.

I've been following the Gemini mailing list for some time now, and I am still not a fan. it feels a lot like re-inventing the wheel, instead of working with existing protocols (like gopher). It also seems to be a passion project of one person, albeit with a large community of followers.

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[1] Shameless plug: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...

snvzz3• 6 years ago

Also over Gopher: gopher://hngopher.com

Not a fan of Gemini. Some of its decisions (e.g. no length) are questionable given its stated goals (including simplicity of implementation and working on resource-constrained hardware).

ddevault• 6 years ago

Why is the lack of length questionable given its stated goals?

Resource constrained hardware is not a stated goal, by the way, quite the opposite. See 2.13: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html (and 2.11 for content-length).

snvzz3• 6 years ago

Not knowing length beforehand introduces a lot of complexity on the client side, going against 2.11.

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