Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

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From: Matthew Ernisse <matt@going-flying.com>

Subject: Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 23:35:43 -0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <slrnt4s8uf.5ci.matt@imladris.colo.ub3rgeek.net>

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 10:32:42 +0200, bacardi55 wrote:

It isn't popular at all and most responses I got where negative but

the concept works (and is in place on my capsule) 🤷.

I remember seeing this a while back, probably via CAPCOM or Antenna.

One of the sentiments that struck me, which seems to be a common theme

these days is this bit from your post:

A "simple" solution would be going to the capsule, find the contact

of the author and send an email… But not every capsule has a contact

page and the process is very manual, requiring to use another tool and

protocol to communicate.

It seems to me that the whole point of application protocols like e-mail,

IRC, netnews, and Gemini itself is to accomplish a specific task. Yes, you

can extend most of them to do what the other does (I used to run an IRC to

e-mail bridge for reasons best left to history) but why? Anything powerful

enough to run Gemini can certainly run e-mail or netnews.

I'd love to know the source of the sentiment and if it happens to be an

aversion to 'switching applications', I'm sure a member of the church of

emacs will step up with alacrity.

--Matt

"The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

--Kosh

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