[ANN] Draft for kind-of a Gemini Fediverse.

[idf31 at memeware.net]

On 2020-09-10 08:39, Leo wrote:
> twtxt seems more aligned with the mindset of Gemini, and is already
> supported by gemini servers and clients.
> 
> Can we adapt twtxt instead of reinventing the wheel, I don't think it
> gets simpler than that anyway. Just a text file with one line for
> tweets.
> 
> One advantage is that only the clients are involved and if I don't
> check your feed, there is no cost. Or is the plan for the servers to
> be more actively involved like Fedi?
> 
> --
> Leo

It seems I haven't really made the intent of the protocol clear, I 
apologise.
InVis is not an attempt to reinvent social media like twitter or 
facebook or whatever. And I agree with you that there are a lot of 
clones for these things. In more general terms, InVis should provide a 
way for Gemini servers to mirror each other's content. It should provide 
a way for Geminauts to  make their content available to a wider space, 
and to provide a nice way of archiving as a side-effect.

I think this could increase the discoverability of content, since a 
reader would be presented with a much wider library of content from 
other people than just the people that run that one server the reader 
stumbled upon. All that is needed to read an InVis module is a Gemini 
client, since all InVis would do is to mirror gemtext files between 
servers :)

Again, I apologise for the misunderstanding, I will try to update the 
draft soon.