Feed format for gemini (alternative to rss feed)

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Am 06.09.20 um 23:15 schrieb James Henderson:
> Hello everyone,
>
> As content starts growing on gemini there may be cause for an rss 
> style feed for the platform.
>
> rss is fine but it’s fairly verbose and Allows for things like 
> embedding images and the like which don’t seem to fit well with gemini.
>
> My proposal is a simpler format where each line in a file is an item 
> in a feed with fields separated by three colons and the line ending \r\n.
> The four fields would be date, link, title, text description e.g.
>
> yyyy/mm/dd ::: link_to_article ::: title ::: text describing the 
> content \r\n
>
> A format like this is easily parsed and displayed in a client. If the 
> gemini protocol defines a mime type for it in the standard it would be 
> easily recognised.
>
> I am just throwing the idea out there, what do people think?
>
Good Morning,

I like your idea of simplicity, but what about a simple csv file?

A simple comma-seperated-file, working now for years in a a lot of 
situations and proven to bo in exchanging lots of data. Nothing new has 
to bb implemented. Libraries for writing csv files are existing for 
almost if not for every programming out there.

Why implementing something new?

--Carsten