Not always online capsules

[nervuri]

On Tue, 2021-09-21, Alice wrote:
>Are there any protocols that could be used with (say) Gemini for capsules that are not always online ?

Gemtext-over-DNS (GoD): base64-encoded gemlogs served as TXT records. :)

A more feasible idea is for Gemini and Gopher clients to keep local
archives of visited pages, so that they can be accessed when servers are
down.  This was suggested by Solderpunk in:

gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/the-individual-archivist-and-ghosts-of-gophers-past.txt

Locally archived pages can also be versioned, as in git, so visitors can
see the diff when a previously accessed page changes.  Amfora allows
subscribing to pages (it fetches them periodically and notifies you when
they change); this feature would work well together with a versioned
local archive.

To echo some other suggestions:
- with something like geminitrack, you can save entire capsules in
  gempub format for offline reading;
- resilience against servers going down is one of the main goals of
  IPFS.