Welcome to Gemini!

January 27, 2025

I discovered Gemini probably a year ago on r/Futurology. I do have hopes of kicking the Reddit habit but I guess it isn't all bad if it helped me find Gemini. I was intrigued by the concept of the smallnet/smolnet, and the concept of returning to the world of computing as it was when I was young in the mid-ninties hit all the right nostalgic notes with me.

I've spent the past year browsing people's capsules off and on. I like that things in Gemspace move more slowly than in the regular internet, so it isn't a big deal to take a few weeks or a few months off. The protocol will still be capsules full of people writing at each other.

I wanted to make a Gemini capsule immediately upon reading through Solderpunk's FAQ pages but the technical challenge was too much. I am not a computer programmer and haven't built a system in probably twenty years, and I have never done Linux. Maybe at some point I'll have time to learn but I can't manage it all right now, so it wasn't until I found Rob's Gemsync service that I was able to particpate in Gemspace. I still want to figure out my own server, but I have no timeline for when that will happen.

In any case, I'm excited to start posting on the internet like it's 1995 again! I have a lot of interests that I want to write about, and maybe the perspective of a non-tech guy in Gemspace can be helpful in some way. My primary outlet over the past several decades has been internet discussion forums but I think I'm going to like this better.

I'll be submitting this to Antenna, so if you're still reading, thanks!