Comment by 🚀 jsreed5

Re: "First post and some tech stack details"

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.

🚀 jsreed5

May 21 · 1 day ago

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🚀 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] · 21 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 ...

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🎲 Yojimbo

First post and some tech stack details — I've been pointed over here as a result of a post in the fediverse, [https link] 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…

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