I'm roughly aligned with #socialart, i.e I think an art practice that primarily aims at personal success is bullshit. I am increasingly horrified by a lot of what goes on under the aegis of digital art.

I don't really like doing things I'm good at, I prefer learning how to do things. Things I'm trying to learn about include: #lowtech, #SmallInternet, #accessibility, #disabilityjustice, #placemaking, #decolonisation, #anticapitalism, etc.

I watched @hexedpress's read-through of a #Pendragon starter adventure today. The quality of the show was really great, the format has enabled to organic commentary, and the feedback provided by the host was knowledgable and precise.

Honestly, if not for #Mastodon, I wouldn't have regained that feel of #SmallInternet again.

@_xhr_ Ah! that's neat an idea. I think I'll explore that. Thanks!
Maybe it's just my bubble, or me waking up to it, but with soaring popularity of #fediverse and associated tech, and the madness of modern #webdev, I feel there is a revival of "vintage" or "vintage-inspired" tech and protocols like #finger, #gopher, #gemini, #rss, #smallinternet, ...

"There aren't any spectators
on the Small Internet,
only participants."

Quote from ~spring

gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-16__The_Small_Internet.txt

#smallweb #smallnet #smallinternet #retrocomputing

@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 )

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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 )

@orangeacme

Some other relevant tags for your thread:

https://fosstodon.org/@orangeacme/109483350342825311

#finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse

#smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb

#smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb

https://learn.adafruit.com/intro-to-mastodon-api-circuitpython

🤩
The more I think about what the best next step for #PicoGopher could be, the more I believe implementing some decentralised protocol to exchange info would be super useful: what is more decentralised than a bunch of personal servers people can physically bring around with them? 🙂

For this reason, I find any effort into implementing parts of #ActivityPub on small devices super interesting!

What are your thoughts about it? #askfedi #selfhosting #SmallInternet

🤩https://learn.adafruit.com/intro-to-mastodon-api-circuitpython

The more I think about what the best next step for #PicoGopher could be, the more I believe implementing some decentralised protocol to exchange info would be super useful: what is more decentralised than a bunch of personal servers people can physically bring around with them? 🙂

For this reason, I find any effort into implementing parts of #ActivityPub on small devices super interesting!

What are your thoughts about it? #askfedi #selfhosting #SmallInternet

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Why 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 —

.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

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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 —

.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

"#PicoGopher Part 6: here comes the sun", or where I harness the power of a flaming star to server gopherholes from a thumb-sized server.

gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/mala/phlog/2022-12-04%20-%20PicoGopher%20-%20here%20comes%20the%20sun
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.3564020356.org+70+302f70686c6f672f323032322d31322d3034202d205069636f476f70686572202d206865726520636f6d6573207468652073756e

#gopher #SmallInternet #raspberryPi #raspberryPiPico #SelfHosting

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!

.

( #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!

.

( #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

Do you want to create your own Mercury browser, or server? —

Mercury Protocol + TLS = Gemini Protocol

Use this library —

go-hg — provides ☿ Mercury Protocol client and server implementations, for the #golang programming language.

https://github.com/reiver/go-hg

.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #geminiSpace #gemSpace )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

Do you want to create your own Mercury browser, or server? —

Mercury Protocol + TLS = Gemini Protocol

Use this library —

go-hg — provides ☿ Mercury Protocol client and server implementations, for the #golang programming language.

https://github.com/reiver/go-hg

.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #geminiSpace #gemSpace )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

Mercury Protocol + TLS = Gemini Protocol

go-hg — provides ☿ Mercury Protocol client and server implementations, for the #golang programming language.

( #gemini #geminiProtocol #geminiSpace #gemSpace )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

You could use #finger as a mirror & a CDN —

The type of #fingerProtocol request many are used to —

finger joeblow@example.com

I.e., ask "example.com" for joeblow's content.

But you could request someone else's from a different server with:

finger joeblow@example.com@changelo.gca

I.e., ask "changelo.ca" for the content for "joeblow" from "example.com".

.

( #fingerHole #fingerverse )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/108253652852332241

You could use #finger as a mirror & a CDN —

The type of #fingerProtocol request many are used to —

finger joeblow@example.com

I.e., ask "example.com" for joeblow's content.

But you could request someone else's from a different server with:

finger joeblow@example.com@changelog.ca

I.e., ask "changelog.ca" for the content for "joeblow" from "example.com".

.

( #fingerHole #fingerverse )

( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )

( #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb )

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/108253652852332241