text/gemini to RSS

[Julien Blanchard]

That?s a great proposal, I briefly started some kind of moku-pona clone with a hash of the content but RSS is clearly superior. I?ll try to make such a tool.

> Le 16 oct. 2019 ? 18:51, solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> a ?crit :
> 
> ?While I haven't forgotten about the still unresolved issue of text
> wrapping, I have to see that *aside* from this, Gemini is starting to
> seem pretty stable.  Most parts of the spec are well-established now and
> we have multiple server and client iplementations.
> 
> For the project to really move forward from here I feel that what's
> needed is more content on Gemini, especially content which is *only* on
> Gemini.  I am planning to launch an sftp-managed free Gemini host in the
> near future, basically a Gemini companion to the Ziabatsu, wich I hope
> will provide an easy means for this, for folk who are interested but not
> able or willing to commit to running their own server.  Stay tuned on
> that front!
> 
> But content alone is not enough, what's needed is an easy way for people
> to find and monitor this content, in a more convenient way than manually
> checking each page every day.  IMHO the Bongusta phlog aggregator had a
> *tremendous* positive effect on the phlogosphere.  An equivalent of
> Bongusta for Geminispace would be grand.
> 
> Of course, there's no moku-pona equivalent for Gemini yet.  And while
> somebody could write one, a much more robust possibility would be for
> Gemini - in the spirit of pulling the very best ideas from the web into
> something more closely resembling Gopherspace - to adopt a culture of
> using RSS.
> 
> If somebody is looking for a relatively simple software project related
> to Gemini, it could be very handy to have a script which reads a Gemini
> map from a local file, and writes out an RSS document where each link in
> the Gemini map becomes an RSS entry.  Then people writing "Gemini logs"
> could run this as a cron job, pointing it at the main menu of their log.
> 
> If such a thing were to materialise, I'd be very happy for my upcoming
> Gemini hosting provider to also host a Geminispace aggregator.
> 
> -Solderpunk