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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

See this? These are the comments I live for. You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

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