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I suppose my point is that if you control the server enough to run CGIs (or have your own server or servers), you have a choice of how to treat your visitors; if you don't (which includes maybe 90+% of active geminauts), you can't easily redirect anyway and have to put up notices and links... Given that distribution, and vagueness of what to do upon redirect, the redirection spec is actually dragging us down... We would be better off coming up with an ad-hoc gemtext that specifies redirection that is recognized browsers and search engines but is human-readable and actionable.
2025-11-28 · 5 months ago
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And I'll give you the same advice I gave everybody that wanted a feature to Gemini back when the mailing list was active: Just Implement It! If I hadn't gone off and written the first Gemini server (even before Solderpunk), Gemini might have died as an idea on his gopher site.
But as for regular users adding redirects, well, the Apache web server had solved that particular issue, but I'm guessing none of the Gemini servers have picked up on the idea.
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Fornax deprecator — As I prepare to move to a different server I want to make that transition easier. Last time I had to hunt down all the urls that people were pointing to (for all the different games and gemlogs), and manually sticking in notices that I am moving to a different server. So I created a simple fornax server which responds to any request with a gemini page (conveniently, index.gmi in the directory specified when starting the server). This file can contain the directions to the...