[ANN] gemifedi, a gemini frontend to the fediverse

[Sandra Snan]

It kinda fails to find the master branch. Maybe that's just me being
pebkac on cargo.

boringcactus <boringcactus at gmail.com> writes:

> if you use Mastodon or Pleroma and you want to be able to use those over 
> gemini, i built a thing to allow for that.
>
> source code: https://git.sr.ht/~boringcactus/gemifedi
> demo instance: gemini://gemifedi.boringcactus.com/about
>
> the code is bad - partially because tls libraries with good client cert 
> support are rare, and partially because i'm too lazy to do anything the 
> right way - but it *works*. mostly.
>
> (if your client of choice hasn't implemented client certs yet, you can 
> run gemifedi locally with the --horribly-insecure flag and it will just 
> trust all requests. don't do that for very long at a time, though.)
>
> as an exercise, i think designing gemifedi was really interesting: 
> gemini has constraints i'm not used to working within, and i had to get 
> creative to build what i wanted. for example, while drafting this 
> paragraph in this email, i thought of a better solution to the problem 
> of "well if everything is GET then everything needs to be idempotent" 
> than i previously had.
>
> i'm not sure how gemini-ish this sort of service is, but given that it's 
> possible to build with gemini as it already exists, it might be a useful 
> data point in ongoing discussions about building Applications™ on top of 
> gemini.
>
> -💤🌵