@freezr The let us hope that mobile phone technology allows offerings like #smolinternet does now.

If the gopher/gemini of phones came along tomorrow, I’d switch!

#gemini #smolinternet

Due to the shutdown of
gmi.si3t.ch
the gemini capsule of the club has moved to
gemini://clubtelematique.flounder.online/

Feel like I need to get into the habit of searching web directories like #Curlie more instead of relying on increasingly unusable search engines. I use #Surfraw with a bunch of custom sites added but it's just muscle memory to keep choosing DuckDuckGo all the time.

#web #internet #enshitification #search #searchengines #smallweb #SmolInternet #smallinternet

Ok #lazyweb / #smolinternet -- is there a server-side Gemlog feed reader type thing? Something I can run and have it display posts in a web browser?

#gemini

🚨 Attention Gemini, Gopher, & Finger fans —

Adële ( @adele ) has something to show you:

https://smolweb.org/

Adële joins others who argue that — we shouldn't throw out all of the HTML "baby" with the broken-web "bath water" — but that instead —

We should use a restricted subset of HTML — and in particular XHTML.

https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@adele/110984755396680624

#smolWeb #smallWeb #smolNet #smallNet #smolInternet #smallInternet #WorldWideWeb #xhtml #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext #gopher #finger #fingerProtocol

About smolweb

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

@pmevzek

Using a DNS SRV record instead of a DNS TXT record —

To make it so you can change the TCP-port and host of a finger-protocol request —

Seems like a reasonable modification to what I was proposing.

( #dns #dnsTxt )

( #finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

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The finger-protocol could make use of DNS TXT records.

You could use it to change the TCP-port connected to for a finger-request.

You could use it to change the host connected to for a finger-request.

This has a lot of potential!

🧵

( #dns #dnsTxt )

( #finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

Leon Brocard (@[email protected])

I've been investigating the WebFinger protocol. But first I thought I'd do some digging through history. Did you know that the finger protocol was first defined in 1977 with RFC 742: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742.html

Fosstodon

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What is Gemini?

I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.

So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.

But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.

Here goes —

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( #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

The #SmallInternet should move away from Internet domain names.

At least as the primary way of addressing content.

Internet domain names —

• can expire,
• can be taken away from you,
• cost you money each year.

This results in URLs breaking — which contributes to one of the scourges of the Internet — Link-Rot 🔗

We are loosing large parts of human culture , human knowledge, and human history as a result of this!

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( #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )