Way back in the 90s I discovered gopher. It was magical, like some difficult to navigate, decaying place hidden from a web going corporate even back then. The problem I had with it was I couldn’t find anything of use.
Now, looking at gemini, I get the same vibe. It has the same magical promise.
What do you use gemini for? For information or just browsing around? Do you want to create a blog or other content? Why in gemini and not on the web?
I love the creativity engendered by the constraints of the protocol. I can do simple stuff for the web (and do sometimes) but building web services is part of what I do for my day job. So gemini helps me look at things from a different perspective.
Specifically, I’ve been doing some work building and refining GemIF, for interactive fiction, which has been a lot of fun.
Also enjoyed chatting with the community. There’s a lot of characters on the mailing list, but for the most part folks are nice and have interesting things to say.
When I use the Lagrange Gemini client, for every game on gemini://gemif.fedi.farm/ that I try to play, the first page loads, but when I click the first “Let’s Play!” link, it says “🚫 Permanent Failure Your request has failed and will fail in the future as well if repeated.”
It seems to load fine in ncgopher, Castor, and Ariane, so I’m not sure what’s going on, but you might want to look into that.
Oh weird. I could’ve sworn I’ve tried in lagrange before but maybe I’m misremembering or something stopped working after I last tried it. Thanks for the report.
Ah okay. Looks like it works fine in 0.12 but not with 1.2. I’ll check into the server logs on what might be going on sometime soon