[ANN] gemifedi, a gemini frontend to the fediverse

[Sandra Snan]

This is awesome! Also I didn't know cargo could do this. So this means
that if I wanna make mods, all I have to do is make them in a repo♥
For example I wanna change URLs that lead to stuff that is bihosted on
https and gemini to be Gemini URLs.

Přemysl Vyhnal <premysl at vyhnal.net> writes:

> Looks like the branch is called main:
>
> cargo install --git https://git.sr.ht/~boringcactus/gemifedi --branch main
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:49 PM Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>> >
>> > -💤🌵
>>