Again on feeds in Gemini format

[Emilis Dambauskas]

2020-11-19 20:43 GMT+02:00 colecmac at protonmail.com:
>> It is true that authors generally have to run a program to generate
>> an RSS/ATOM feed, but how is this different from self-hosting Spacewalk?
> 
> There are more content authors then there are people who want to self-host
> aggregators. The proposal helps content authors who want their posts to
> be interpreted properly by public aggregators without having to generate
> an Atom feed themselves, which can be difficult.

I agree that it could be the job of aggregators to convert between the feed formats and re-share the feeds.

The Gemini feed format then could be more oriented to be human readable and writable.

The ISO8601 timestamps could be both short (e.g. 2020-11-19) and long, UTC based (e.g. 2020-11-19T18:51:31+00:00).

It would be up to the author to order the post links in order.

The format would work more like an index and would prevent the common problems with using file creation/modification times.

The aggregators could then take these index files/feeds and fill in the missing time parts if needed and according to their own implementations (e.g. keep a database of when links appeared / add "T00:00:00Z" to the date before sorting and so on).

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Emilis Dambauskas