Alls; probably another question from the “odd-yet-interesting-requirements” department: Would it be possible, desirable, … to expose micro.blog hosted blogs via Gemini protocol …
… too? At least in my (federated / indieweb) circles I see a certain momentum in this and wonder whether it would be possible to have this natively bolted into micro.blog somehow?
Thanks and best regards,
Kristian
I hadn’t heard of this before. I’ve now read through the FAQ. It’s not something we’re going to work on right now, but if I hear other requests later we can consider it.
Thanks and no hurry, just an idea. (I see this popping up every other week again right now with people complaining that HTTP browsers are way too bloated and in this way or the other “difficult”. Maybe more lightweight protocols that are easier to implement client-side might be a way out. Maybe.)
Gemini is incredibly niche and small.
I’m actually surprised Micro.blog does not already publish Gemini. Seems like a perfect match.
@z428 @rnkn Not a simple solution and not out-of-the-box, but I did get my Micro.blog site mirrored to Gemini. Since Micro.blog uses Micropub, you can use the API to grab your posts and then write a little server to serve those posts as specified by the Gemini Protocol. You’ll also need to transform the post text from markdown/html to gemtext.
Of course, it is a bit technical, but if you’re interested I wrote in more detail on how I did it on my blog