How widly used is misfin in geminispace? Is it 'adopted' in your opinion?
2025-09-17 · 8 months ago
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🌆 skyjake [mod...] · 2025-09-17 at 12:00:
I don't think it's widely used, although without statistics or surveys it is difficult to say for sure.
Personally, I have been running a Misfin receiver at jk@skyjake.fi for little over a year and have been in contact with a total of six people using it.
TBH, I don't think so, OTOH: how often do you need to write message (think of email) to other geminauts?
I have few obvious ideas, that could make it more interesting, although it would likely turn it into something else...
I've tried it and also wrote this article about usage examples (Ukrainian)
— Misfin - поштовий сателіт Geminispace
To be brief, it is not an email replacement. I have no insights about the spam protection, as it allows generating a lot of .gmis files limited to 1MB. Additionally, I definitely want to see a GUI client, although I don't see much sense in creating one since there are no users to interact with.
Anyway, Misfin is something I'm really intrigued by as a minimalistic alternative to the giant privacy-less technologies, so I'm following the project news.
💎 pista · 2025-09-19 at 02:42:
In ten months of running a misfin server I have yet to have ANYONE contact me over misfin.
(I did sign up on another server just to make sure my misfin is in fact working.)
🚀 tpt_ [OP] · 2025-09-19 at 10:58:
I see it as a fine idea with some flaws, and no use to me personally. :-)
Definitely will follow its growth trend.
🌙 zordsdavini · Nov 21 at 19:41:
I found it as notification service. I've added action on gemini memtions to send misfin to me and in computer I have widget to count new messages