cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/24735701
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
It is similar to the old gopher: text files, links, and images form a hypertext optimized for reading. Text is formatted like Markdown - but even simpler.
Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.
Servers can run on a PC or Raspberry Pi which needs half a Watt of power. No FAANG companies needed. No expert knowledge needed - not more difficult than running a file sharing client.
I think it is the right thing for defense of democracy and sharing your voice in the digital realm.
It’s kind of meaningless but very interesting at the same time :D
Just a week ago I put my bog on there: gemini://jeena.net
The thing is also that there was no server available for Ubuntu so it would automatically be updated with the system updates. So instead of keeping it up to date manually, I decided to get some help of a coding agent and we made together a simple static file serving Gemini server which I pu on here: https://git.jeena.net/jeena/pollux
I’m still working on it, especially I want virtual hosts and better parallelism.
I just hope that the time I put in ti Make it secure payed off and nobody hacks my server. Normally I only work on the application layer.
Debian 12 (and looks like Ubuntu, too) has
molly-brown. I also chose it for being a Debian package instead of additional install.The easiest and possibly most secure server I know of is agate, written in Rust. But there are many implementations to start from…
Yeah, afterwards I actually looked at Agates code specifically to get inspiration for features where I saw the vhost part.
But like the protocol it was fun to just try out if I can implement something useful.