Rubenerd

On Monday I mulled the idea of starting a Gemini or Gopher server, and either hosting a version of this site on it, or starting something new.

Martin emailed with a suggestion for Gopher:

I very much doubt Gemini is going anywhere. Gopher has been around since forever and still has an active community. Please join us :)

Wouter from Brain Baking referred me to a post he wrote last year where he did exactly that. He recommends Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust. He also links to Sylvian Durand’s method for templating out Gemini pages in Hugo, the static site generator I use. Most importantly for me, he also talked through his mental process for deciding what to publish! In the end he decided it was a lot of extra boilerplate and work, similar to his recent post about metadata.

In terms of other people running dual or triple stacks, rjc also referred me to the Boston Diaries by Sean Conner, and Jonathan W. emailed saying he used to run a Gemini site before he moved on as Wouter did. I miss your writing Jonathan; though given how you were treated I don’t blame you for going offline.

I was originally leaning towards Gopher, but exploring Gemini in the Lagrange browser reminded me just how much I love it. Rather than boiling the ocean, I might try running my own server with some basic stuff on it first.