Questions on Communities

Seeing as this is one of the very first communities I have found besides reddit , I am gonna ask my question here. Is there a central place where everyone kinda gathers for discussions in regards to the development of Gemini, or developing sites with it?

2. Is there a central community that revolves around the Smol Web?

looking for IRC , discord , Matrix , News letters or anything if that nature. Other things are welcome though too ! Been a little lost without a central pillar.

Also anyone got any good Gemini sites you could recommend or gopher spaces ?

I would love some recommendations!

🚀 r4

Jan 10 · 4 months ago

8 Comments ↓

🚀 stack · Jan 10 at 20:09:

Low-hanging fruit -- aggregators. Check these daily and drill into posts to find new gemlogs and such:

— skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/

— warmedal.se/~antenna/

🍀 gritty · Jan 11 at 04:08:

I usually post my gemini development questions here on BBS in one subspace or another. BBS is the most centralizing platform on Gemini in my opinion. Station is more like Twitter. there's a mastodon server linked off tildeverse.org that you can check out. A lot of smol web folks on there.

There are also a few guides on development. Also, don't expect the protocol to change anytime soon

🚀 r4 [OP] · Jan 11 at 05:59:

how do you use station ? that confused me , is it the same way like antenna ? Thanks by the way !

🍀 gritty · Jan 11 at 07:14:

Station is the same as here on BBS, you just load up a cert to make an account and you can post. There's one main timeline for everyone and you have your personal timeline. Station is the original social media site for gemini.

🚀 r4 [OP] · Jan 11 at 07:40:

Oh okay! gotcha! Is there a way to share your cert on like legrange to another browser that's the same on like Mac OS? legrange is cross platform.

🍀 gritty · Jan 11 at 15:59:

there's nothing built-in, but some folks have come up with clever solutions. one common solution is syncthing synching your Lagrange cert directory. personally, I just put it on my VPS and pull it down whenever I need it on a new device.

🚀 r4 [OP] · Jan 12 at 09:53:

oh okay- I noticed that legrange let's you export your certificates and stuff like that. so that's cool. good cross platform program.

🚀 stack · Jan 12 at 19:09:

Certificates are are an SSL/TLS standard, so unless you write really weird code they should be interoperable between browsers...