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Gemini Links 03/09/2023: geminiprotocol.net is Coming



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Simple Site Generator

        It's been a while since I last posted. I have been busy working on my weatherstation. I'll need to write about that soon, but for now I want to talk about the state of my capsule.

        During my breaks from the weatherstation, I have been working on my own site generator. I have finally got it to the point where I can start using it in production. There's definitely a lot of work left to be done before I can publish it for others to use.

        I have been calling it `simple-site` for now, though I'll probably think of a better name when I actually release it. I have designed the generator to be as simple possible while allowing for complexity to come if desired.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Edan's Capsule - Why I Suddenly Switched To ProtonMail Yesterday

          As anyone who has looked at my Finger profile before may remember, I used to use Tutanota. At the time, I chose Tutanota because of some news articles I had been reading about that time ProtonMail logged a climate activist's IP address (due to a court order), leading to their arrest; and I had also heard about Tutanota's post-quantum encryption, which altogether made Tutanota seem the superior email provider.



        • Domain name switch next weekend

          Preparations for the switch to the new geminiprotocol.net domain are going well. I now plan to make the official switch next weekend. Redirects will be put in place for all existing URLs, so nothing ought to break. This will be a good opportunity for people to test whether their bookmarking and/or subscription tools are smart enough to follow permanent redirects only once!

        • Domain name switch next weekend
        • We Need to Fix the Core Experience: Living in the Die-Off of Social Media

          A couple of weeks ago, an update from Tumblr caused a stir among its users. It wrote that, to grow, it needed to fix the core experience on the site. Tumblr is a bit of an aberration in that it's tenaciously held on to its way of doing things: users are expected to curate their own feed by the people and blogs they follow.

          This is the way things used to work on social media, because it's notably user-friendly. Follow your friends, and interesting people. Get their posts or whatever in the order they were created.

          Great, right? Well, maybe if you're a user. If you're a social media company, you've got to make money, and you've got a limited number of ways of doing it. You can ask users to pay, as Twitter and Cohost do; or you can go the usual route involving ads, data collection, and an algorithmic timeline.


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