Gemini and Gopher

[sjehuda]

These platforms are easy for publishing content structuraly.

I have planned to publish only a dozen of posts for the next three years, yet I can not stop because it is so simple to create content which is nicely structured

• gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal.gmi
• gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/projects.gmi

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solderpunk, one of the founders of Gemini has created two software for both protocols.

Gopher

• https://git.sr.ht/~solderpunk/VF-1

Gemini

• https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98

Both are written in the Python computer language.

[snarfed]

Fun! Gemini and Gopher are both great. They're document-oriented, though, while granary focuses on structured content. Do you have a sense for how you'd convert Gemini pages or Gopher text files (I assume?) to AS1 objects? I see that I could get title and content from Gemini, and content from Gopher, but that doesn't seem like enough to be worthwhile.

[sjehuda]

to AS1 objects?

Do you mean to Atom Syndication Format 1.0?

Do you have a sense for how you'd convert Gemini pages or Gopher text files (I assume?)

No. Not yet.

I have started by drafting a couple of posts in order to understand Gemini and to decide whether to utilize "offpunk" or "AV-98" for my XMPP news bot, and eventually I have been keeping on published articles by the day, instead of adding Gemini support.

References

• https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98
• https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/

Resources

• https://ploum.net/2023-11-25-offpunk2.html (this article might be helpful)
• https://schapps.woodpeckersnest.eu/journal/2024-05-23-slixfeed-news-bot/ (about my news bot)
• gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal.gmi (30 more articles than of the HTML counterpart)

Conclusion

I will draft code to read Gemini data with Slixfeed and I will inform you of my findings.

[snarfed]

Do you mean to Atom Syndication Format 1.0?

No, I meant ActivityStreams 1, it's the common format that granary uses internally. No matter though, the more important question is if there's any meaningful way to convert Gemini or Gopher content to granary's other output formats, eg AS2, RSS, JSON Feed, etc.

Again, I like Gemini and Gopher! I'm just not sure they'd make sense in granary specifically.

[sjehuda]

The more important question is if there's any meaningful way to convert Gemini or Gopher content to granary's other output formats, eg AS2, RSS, JSON Feed, etc.

I was also wondering about it. I do not know, yet. Once I have observations, I will report to you. For the moment, I would assume that first level headers could be translated into a start of an entry, yet the link would aways be to the subject page. Example text ------------ # News about community activity ## Title Content # Updates about organizational decisions ## Title Content Example output -------------- {'entries' : [""" # News about community activity ## Title Content """], [""" # Updates about organizational decisions ## Title Content """] }