Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 22:35:39

 Sp>  Vk> I know nothing about Gemini, but am aware some people are still playi
 Sp>  Vk> with Gopher servers. I've never set one up myself. maybe I should
 Sp>  Vk> as an exercise some day. :)
 Sp> 
 Sp> I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
 Sp> a gopher site.  It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house
 Sp> after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.
 Sp> 
 Sp> There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there
 Sp> were in its "hey day"  By an order of magnitude I believe. But since
 Sp> that brief flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

There are a lot of gopher and gemini sites, or capsules, as they are known in the gemini world.  The problem is there isn't much there that is good.  Content matters more than form, and it doesn't really mean much if the format is light and easy on resources, when what is on there isn't really all that interesting.

Many sites are either copies of web sites, or blogs of people wanting to phlog or use gemini.

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