Gemini Digest, Vol 26, Issue 36

[Jason McBrayer]

charliebrownau <charliebrownau@protonmail.com> writes:

> Gday
>
> 1.
> I would love to see newsgroup rival
> for news (textural), low bandwidth photos/pics and low bandwidth files (podcasts,recipies, wood working/3d printing plans)
> 2.I would like to see secure> IRCS , FTPS, newsgroupS and fingerS come back
> without bloated http web, corporations, , centralised cloud servers ,
> subverive elements

I'd say that none of these are really in-scope for Gemini. A lot of the
things in (2) already exist. For example, I access a couple of NNTP
servers that use TLS. NNTP has its problems, and I'd love to see
something that both modernizes and simplifies it, but that's going to be
its own protocol, not something build on Gemini.

> 3. Also has anyone dissussed a method to transfer email in bulk at certain times using gemini like the old fido mail BBS system
> for gemini situations of low bandwidth, bandwidth limits
> or partial uptime periods of time or different quota/speeds on the connection if self hosting at home or grid down issues

What you want to look into for this is NNCP
(http://www.nncpgo.org/). It is a successor protocol to UUCP, which was
traditionally used for those purposes.  Building on top of NNCP is a
really promising approach to any attempt to rethink news and mail.

> 4.
>
> Also whats the best Gemini server progrma to use
> without systemd, dbus, policykit, java, python, dotnet
> , snap, flatpak
> for a low end vps to serve gemlog, gemcast stream
> and a few picutures

There are several Gemini servers in C with limited dependencies.

-- 
Jason McBrayer      | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
                    | but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”
                    | ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow