Feed format for gemini (alternative to rss feed)

[Sandra Snan]

James Henderson <henderson.j at protonmail.com> writes:
> The idea behind using ::: is that its rare enough to never really show
> up and therefore makes a fairly solid delimiter. It also makes
> manually writing a feed file easier because commas quotes and escapes
> are not a concern at all.

Betting that your delim is rare instead of providing escapes isn't a
great design principle in my experience. Gemini itself has already been
bit by this as we saw earlier with the unescapable ```

TSV or CSV exist and have clients that can help write and read them.

Leo <gemini at gkbrk.com> writes:
> While I like the idea of simple line-delimited formats for feeds,
> I have to agree that Atom or RSS is simply the way to go here.

I'm not 100% decided yet, but the position stated by Leo here is what
I'm currently leaning towards.

As I wrote on irc://irc.tilde.chat/#gemini :
> With the understanding that everyine got into Gemini for different
> reasons, I got into Gemini after reading this web page.
> https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html.
> Creating a new format, I see as increasing scope

I believe I also for some reason also linked to this old chestnut:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

I could maaaybe get suckered in into supporting a format where every
entry is one line. Link iso-8601-date title. No description.

But my 2¢ is for us to stick with a format similar to Gemfeed's output.