First post and some tech stack details
I've been pointed over here as a result of a post in the fediverse, https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116609819600690096.
https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116609819600690096
I'd already grabbed Lagrange as a browser, but as my only source of gemini protocol resources was people mentioning them in the fediverse, I'd found it difficult to get a start.
Hopefully, having a look around this BBS will help me figure out whether gemtext is rich enough for how I want to write things - although I used to do OK back in the 80s on Usenet!
I probably should make some effort to get the CLI version of Lagrange running too, and then try to work out whether this editing a page one section at a time is supposed to be "the structure of things" or just "a UX choice by the BBS"
🎲 Yojimbo
May 21 · 2 days ago · 👍 cipres · 🤘 1 👋 2
🚀 stack · May 21 at 15:44:
Link broken?...
🚀 jsreed5 · May 21 at 15:54:
Welcome to Geminispace!
Since Gemini tends to be a slow and quiet protocol, finding capsules can be a little difficult at first. In the early days there was a mailing list, and today there is a Usenet newsgroup where people sometimes promote their capsules (comp.infosystems.gemini).
Here are a few links you can use to start exploring:
— Antenna (the original, which is due to shut down this summer). This is a Atom feed aggregator, but instead of pulling from a known list, Geminuats submit their feeds to Antenna at the time they want the service to pull them.
— Antenna (updated version). This is run by Michael Nordmeyer, the new official maintainer for Antenna.
— Station. Another microblogging-type platform in Gemini; it actually predates BBS.
— Cosmos. Run by the creator of BBS and Lagrange, this is a "super-aggregator" that tracks backlinks across Gemini posts.
— DiscoGem. Selects five random capsules per day and shares links to them. This is a great way to find more obscure pages.
— Shameless plug: I also have a list of Gemini links to things that interest me.
@stack It looks like BBS added the period at the end of the sentence onto the link. If you remove that, the link works.
🚀 stack · May 21 at 17:10:
Looks like you need to remove the trailing period in your link!
And welcome
🌆 skyjake [...] · May 21 at 17:32:
I removed the offending period from the OP's link.
The issue is that the URL detection is a bit sloppy so these auto-generated links may contain unwanted characters.
🎲 Yojimbo [OP] · 20 hours ago:
Thanks for that, you fixed it while I was asleep (because I don't live in the same TZ as most of the rest of the world). You're right about URL detection - I often finish a sentence with a URL and prioritise the human-reading-rules of a terminating stop ...