Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That's not a new idea, but it's not old fashioned either. It's timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We're not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth.

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Gemini is a very interesting project and it's where I hang out the second most after nostr. I originally found it before nostr when I was originally moving away from the web, having been convinced that mainstream internet was irredeemably broken...

Yeah i used to run a gemini capsule, not needing to run a server would be a huge advantage. I want to try to build a Gemini-like spec and client for nostr (hyperlinked gemtext)

What was your capsule? I may have visited it...

Also interested to see what you build

Was jb55.com before i shut it down. I just tried to run gmnisrv again and it doesn’t seem to work. Oh well

Ah OK, I run mine with gemserv (written in Ruby) and it works OK... you could probably still use MollyBrown for yours depending on your exact needs

Got it up and running again

Oh man, we’re so back.

Nice, will fire up Lagrange 😃

fyi, the ‘lowdown’ package converts standard markdown into gemini markdown.

i think I remember using this at one point

Interesting... "it’s probably best to think of the Gemini Protocol and its users as akin to the Internet Amish, where it’s not modern technology that they disdain, but modern overstimulation, noise, and rampant connectivity."

Highly agree with the value proposal.

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