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Having played with this now via their "kiosk"[1] it's very cool and I think there's something here. I expect only the kind of people who visit HN will ever try
by 0xCMP 6y ago
Having played with this now via their "kiosk"[1] it's very cool and I think there's something here.
I expect only the kind of people who visit HN will ever try it and fewer will ever use it, but the protocol is very nice and simple. I wish it would take off and that a nice GUI client was written so that it was easier to use.
[1]: ssh kiosk@gemini.circumlunar.space
- stryan 6y agoThere is the Castor[1] GUI client, which ends up being a bit nicer to use. But the protocol draws heavily from Gopher so text-based clients are the default. [1] https://sr.ht/~julienxx/Castor/ https://sr.ht/~julienxx/Castor/
- xkapastel 6y agoWhat on earth is this kiosk thing? There's no explanation whatsoever. `help` does not do much.
- svara 6y agoAwesome, this makes me feel like it's 1998 again, in the best possible way :) To the sibling comment: It's a bit non-obvious indeed. It allows you to use their AV-98 Gemini client. [0] The source seems to be basically the documentation here ;) Try this: AV-98> tour gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/ Then add links that you want to visit (they're numbered) with, for example AV-98> tour 1 and navigate there with AV-98> tour [0] https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98/src/branch/master/av98.py https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98/src/branch/master/av98...)