Re: "How widly used is misfin in geminispace? Is it 'adopted' in…"

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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.

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2025-09-17 · 8 months ago

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⛄️ gim · 2025-09-17 at 17:43:

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...

👻 ps · 2025-09-18 at 01:47:

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

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🚀 tpt_:

How widly used is misfin in geminispace? Is it 'adopted' in your opinion?

💬 6 comments · 2025-09-17 · 8 months ago