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● Gemini Links 04/09/2023: Feed Subscriptions on ‘Small Net’, Why BBS

Posted in News Roundup at 11:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

↺ 04 September 2023

I started working more from home over the last couple of weeks and i must admit: I am beginning to like it. During covid and the various lockdowns i have also worked from home but back then i really hated it. Perhaps it was just that being “confined” to the same four walls for 24 hours a day was a bit too much for my mind, but who knows. Being more at home has also the benefit of being able to help my wife with junior, and as the company i work for has no problems with me having a baby in the arm while being in a zoom meeting everyone is happy.

Technology and Free Software

Internet/Gemini

↺ Feed Subscriptions on the Small and Not So Small Net

The Small Net thrives to create a human-sized net devoid of any big-tech gravity. Subscribing to feeds allows for a non-infrastructural semi-network. People are somewhat connected and receive updates automatically.

But currently, at least like most feed readers are setup by default and most people use it, there’s constant traffic. Requesting feeds, even though they didn’t change. The web has a HTTP 304 “Not Modified” return code, which limits the downloads somewhat, but the requests are still being sent. Gemini doesn’t have anything like that. A feed will always be downloaded.

↺ What was Inbox Zero?

Of course, most of the time you can go from first-look to done immediately, by either replying right away or just ignoring/blocking the email, and that’s great, that’s healthy, but that only makes it more tricky when you do need that intermediate step for some emails.

↺ Re: Why you no BBS?

I’ve had a few Reddit accounts, and accounts on Discourse or Vanilla sites like Story-Games, and the big bad evil elephant in the room called BoardGameGeek, but I’m not happy about it.

Antenna is also centralized, but since it could easily be changed to a decentralized system if Gemini space ever becomes too big, I was like “enh, it’s fine”. I follow a couple of other aggregators as well.

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