Hello everyone. I just discovered Gemini yesterday when I ran across Deedum in the appstore (Though just an hour or so ago I settled on Lagrange). This seems to be one of the most active social capsules I've come across so far. I was just wondering, is there a way you search for capsules without the usual search engines like Kennedy? I suppose a better question would be if there's non-indexed capsules, sort of like a 'deep Gemini Space' and if so how you might go about finding them. I have an interest in learning technology from the ground up, but most of my knowledge comes from playing PC games my whole life and as of the last few years dealing with mods in games and daily driving linux.

5 days ago · 👍 freezr, ashnar, hacknorris, half_elf_monk, z3r0, digbat, not4uffinonmobile, nihirash

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Here’s a Gopher server that I’ve found helpful when I’ve forgotten an address on Gopher:

gopher://magical.fish/ · 3 days ago

@z3ro I like both, but this space is to hang out, while BBS is topic driven... · 3 days ago

@z3r0 Maybe, but I do still like BBS because it's still very simple to use and doesn't seem overly complicated or like much of social media. · 3 days ago

@freezr it seems like this is just a simple microblogging service while BBS tries to be more Reddit like.

I feel like this place fits better with the smolnet philosophy IMHO. · 3 days ago

@half_elf_monk Having used the Gemini Protocol for a few days now, yes. Yes it would. · 4 days ago

Welcome! Glad you made it. :) Wouldn't it be great if there were more gemini-protocol related apps in apt/aur/f-droid ? · 4 days ago

@ashnar That looks good, but I still wonder if there's a good search engine for gopher. · 5 days ago

Thanks for the help. I have one more question though. Is there a good search engine for multiple protocols? I tried Aura search but it didn't seem to have that good of an index as things I searched with Kennedy wouldn't appear. It'd at least be nice to know something like a good Gopher search to use with Lagrange. · 5 days ago

gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup/list/

We need to go deeper · 5 days ago

All pending accounts have been approved at BBS at the moment. Let me know if yours isn't for some reason.

The Lupa crawler has perhaps the most comprehensive index of existing capsules:

gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/lupa-capsules.gmi

However, if a capsule isn't discoverable by crawlers, then there is no way to find it unless the owner somehow provides the address to you. · 5 days ago

@freezr Oh, I know. It seems like it's taking them quite a while to approve my account for posting and using flairs. · 5 days ago

Hi!

Station is the first Social-Like Capsule of Gemini, then we have also:

bbs.geminispace.net

but they aren't the same thing... · 5 days ago