• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Hey also. Gopher is also getting a bit of a hit, but mostly due to a new protocol someone came up with called Gemini. It’s like Gopher a lot but has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

    You can find out more about it here. I recommend Lagrange for your client. Two places I like to go to are Station (gemini://station.martinrue.com/) and Antenna (gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/). BBS (gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/) is also a new one on the scene.

    And the nice thing about Lagrange is that it also supports the Finger protocol which basically is a way to read the .project or .plan file on a given user for the indicated system. Those files for those that never used them allowed a user to type a short status update into them that folks could then poll at any given time. Basically “ye olde status update”.

    There’s a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no/) and it works really well in Lagrange.

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      10 months ago

      [Gemini] has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

      “Markup” would be a better term here. Markdown is a specific markup language which Gemini doesn’t use.

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      10 months ago

      There’s a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no/)…

      That’s neat! Thanks!

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      10 months ago

      Wow thanks for this comment, Lagrange works incredibly well. I had a lot of fun trying out Gemini, I had been doing Gopher recently but Im definitely going to add this to my goofing around.

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        10 months ago

        One cool thing is the game astrobotany, but Gemini shines in its focus on connecting through text only medium. Try midnight city for that.

        (If you can’t find URLs, ping me and I’ll update the post)

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      10 months ago

      Funnily enough I was toying with the idea of making a Gopher based Lemmy frontend for the lulz. Maybe Gemini then?