"How We Lost Communication to Entertainment"
A following of my post about PixelFed
https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
Also available on #gemini :
gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.gmi
What's your favourite client?
Your favourite server to run?
#smolweb #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallnet #geminiprotocol #gemini #GopherProtocol #gopher
"How We Lost Communication to Entertainment"
A following of my post about PixelFed
https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
Also available on #gemini :
gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.gmi
Nuovo post sul gemlog.
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Dovete sapere che io avevo una radiosveglia da comodino, era una bella radiosveglia con la ricezione digitale, uno schermo persino troppo luminoso e un altoparlante dotato di buon volume. L'unico grosso problema è che la configurazione dell'allarme constava, per quanto riguarda la periodicità dello stesso, di tre opzioni:
* allarme che si attiva ogni giorno;
* allarme che si attiva solo i giorni feriali;
#lisp #sveglia #DIY #raspberrypi #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
Many of us started using the #GeminiProtocol hash-tag once the #Gemini hash-tag got flooded with stuff about the Google Gemini LLM.
I like the Gemini Protocol, but — I think too many of the other small-net protocols try to mimick Gemini.
I think things would be better in some ways if — those so inclined to create a new small-net protocol would be more creative (rather than conforming to the patterns that the Gemini Protocol has used or established).
Sure, you can accept the small-net values, but — try something new, as far as designing a protocol goes.
#Lagrange v1.19.4 released — https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases/tag/v1.19.4
• Fixed Windows file path encoding (!)
• Fixed crash when opening WebP images on Windows
• Fixed Nex protocol link context menu
Release notes: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/34748
The mobile builds have not been updated at this time.
Nuovo post sul gemlog.
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Dovete sapere che io avevo una radiosveglia da comodino, era una bella radiosveglia con la ricezione digitale, uno schermo persino troppo luminoso e un altoparlante dotato di buon volume. L'unico grosso problema è che la configurazione dell'allarme constava, per quanto riguarda la periodicità dello stesso, di tre opzioni:
* allarme che si attiva ogni giorno;
* allarme che si attiva solo i giorni feriali;
#lisp #sveglia #DIY #raspberrypi #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
#Lagrange v1.19.4 released — https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases/tag/v1.19.4
• Fixed Windows file path encoding (!)
• Fixed crash when opening WebP images on Windows
• Fixed Nex protocol link context menu
Release notes: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/34748
The mobile builds have not been updated at this time.
But as I've already mentioned in other threads, the #GeminiProtocol approach IMO throws away the baby with the bathwater. Many of the web formats and technologies are actually extremely useful even for the “web of documents”: the problem isn't with #HTML, #CSS, #XML, #XSLT, #SVG or even #JavaScript, the problem is that browsers have been catering exclusively to the “web of apps” instead of the “web of documents”. We *can* keep that tech *and* the “web of documents”.
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If anything, the biggest issue would be that, since the “web of documents” and the “web of apps” use the same protocol, switching from one to the other won't be “natural”.
In this sense, the #GeminiProtocol folks have arguably had the right idea: “we'll make our own web, with simple text and image formats”. This, to steal @witchescauldron's expression <https://kolektiva.social/@witchescauldron/115592900566471848>, pushes the “web of documents” away from the “web of apps”.
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@bortzmeyer salut, Je découvre ton article sur #geminiprotocol j'adore le coté bien minimaliste.
Je me demandais si il est possible d'installer le serveur (agate) ou un autre sur un #synology ? Je précise que je bidouille sur #linux depuis longtemps, mais je suis une "quiche" en reseau/server, port forward...
Si tu as des conseils, par avance, merci
What's your favourite client?
Your favourite server to run?
#smolweb #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallnet #geminiprotocol #gemini #GopherProtocol #gopher
La complainte du technopunk ringard
https://ploum.net/2025-11-17-techpunk.html
Évidemment aussi dispo sur #gemini #geminiprotocol :
My latest story Ticker (flash fiction, medical horror, sci-fi) is now up on my Gemini capsule!
gemini://ferenbrooke.com/short-stories/ticker.gmi
Web link for normal people:
@monterosato : c’est que fait le #geminiprotocol mais sans prétention.
Un réseau conçu pour empêcher le flicage, empêcher la monétisation des vues et interdire toute évolution car il fait ce qu’il doit faire, car un navigateur Gemini doit pouvoir être programmé en un week-end par une personne seule.
Moi, j’adore. (et oui, j’ai même mon propre navigateur)
Mais c’est vraiment très geek ! Ça ne va pas arranger l’image que tes collègues ont de toi ;-)
https://ploum.net/gemini-le-protocole-du-slow-web/index.html
Parmi les tristes choses que font les gafam: https://xslt.rip/ - je pense de plus en plus que Stiegler avait raison quand il disait qu'il fallait faire un autre web, un autre numérique... ailleurs... ici on se fait bouffer par la bigtech
@monterosato : c’est que fait le #geminiprotocol mais sans prétention.
Un réseau conçu pour empêcher le flicage, empêcher la monétisation des vues et interdire toute évolution car il fait ce qu’il doit faire, car un navigateur Gemini doit pouvoir être programmé en un week-end par une personne seule.
Moi, j’adore. (et oui, j’ai même mon propre navigateur)
Mais c’est vraiment très geek ! Ça ne va pas arranger l’image que tes collègues ont de toi ;-)
https://ploum.net/gemini-le-protocole-du-slow-web/index.html
(I don't dislike gemtext. And I love the idea of a web built on lightweight markup. I would love it if user agents had native support for plain formats like markdown or asciidoc. I even like the #GeminiProtocol. And I see no reason why you shouldn't ship text/gemini over HTTP or HTML over Gemini.)
This, by the way, is part of the same rant. There is absolutely nothing preventing, say, #Firefox from adding support for the #GeminiProtocol and for the gemtext format. It would have been a better time investment for their engineers than the time they wasted adding integration with #LLM chatbots that people now have to waste their time disabling (or removing from the code).
