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Re:Six Years of Gemini by martinrue on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:38AM (#44578720)
I made the first (and still popular) "social network" 4 years ago. Still going strong. More info: https://martinrue.com/station
Re:Six Years of Gemini by tvshtr on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:08AM (#44578863)
it's this federated with anything?
Re:Six Years of Gemini by martinrue on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:16AM (#44578909)
No, it's as simple as it sounds. I should think about that at some point.
Re:Six Years of Gemini by grep_name on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:34PM (#44585449)
This is an interesting project. So the whole thing is hosted at gemini://station.martinrue.com, with no way to host other instances? Stuff like this that leverages the default TLS nature of gemini is pretty exciting. I'm going to have to set up an account later to check it out.

Edit: Checked it out and this is definitely a cool idea. Is there any way to change the unicode emoji next to your name?

Re:Six Years of Gemini by dimkr1 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:01AM (#44580173)
https://github.com/dimkr/tootik is another Gemini social network that does federate over ActivityPub, and I've been thinking about developing a minimalist ActivityPub alternative (maybe using Gemini and Titan to replace HTTP GET and POST, respectively) that can coexist with ActivityPub support
Re:Six Years of Gemini by kstrauser on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:11AM (#44583161)
That’s brilliant, and exactly the sort of thing that could get me back into Gemini. Nice!
Re:Six Years of Gemini by tvshtr on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:32PM (#44675743)
thanks! looks interesting