William Casarin @[email protected]

not sure why my gopher http proxy isn't working on mobile so here's the txt: https://jb55.com/s/protoverse-part-1.txt

Did a quick phlog post on the metaverse protocol I'm working on

https://jb55.com/0/phlog/protoverse-part-1.txt

gopher://jb55.com/0/phlog/protoverse-part-1.txt

@htimsxela and yet they promote 0 conf transactions for accepting payments 🤦

@EdS @solderpunk yup nature's energy storage as well

@cat https://pixelfed.org/

Gemini browser for Android 👀 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.snoe.deedum

@tomasino probably not a big deal though since there will be clients that handle both at the same time...

@tomasino I definitely like the idea of choice of protocol depending on complexity levels of taste, although it's a shame that content gets fragmented.

@tomasino astrobiology, client certs, various encryption protocols, identity, etc are neat but I fear that it's super overkill to force encryption latency/complexity on the entire geminiverse of mostly static markdown-like files. I guess gopher is just more my jam, maybe I'll just write a client that renders markdown when it detects it 😅

Not to mention that the noise-protocol would be a strictly better choice here (less roundtrips), but unfortunately TLS is baked into the core protocol so you're stuck with it. I doubt Mercury will catch on but it would be my ideal "markdown gopher" protocol.

gemini wastes time by adding a non-trivial amount of TLS latency to each request, most of the time this is completely unnecessary.

looks like a lot of replies to this post on the geminiverse were against this proposal. I guess I'll be sticking with gopher for now.

Not sure I'm a fan of mandatory TLS in gemini, what about mercury? gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/the-mercury-protocol.gmi

A guide to winning with the bongcloud chess opening https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1401479151063.pdf

@tomasino @solderpunk ohhh now I want to rewrite my gopher hole in gemini. great presentation!

I transcribed the section where we talked about Gopher and put it in my gopher hole: https://jb55.com/0/phlog/cyberdeck-podcast.txt

replace https:// with gopher:// to view it there :)

@lukedashjr have you looked into Web Key Directory? I thought it was a bit confusing so I just host a file on my site for now.