There’s a lot more activity in Geminispace than I realized: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de there is much more activity in USENET. 🤭

Joke aside, if anyone using a sane protocol (sorry, sorry, no more jokes!) wants to see what’s been referred about here, without leaving the browser, head over.

@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org What’s “the gemini tx model”? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de if I didn’t know we were talking about a protocol, I would think they were referring to an automobile model. 😂

@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Yup, that’s where my web search ended up as well. 🥴

More interesting aspects about Antenna:

At first, I thought that Antenna acted like a “traditional” blog aggregator, but that’s not really the case. You know, with a blog aggregator, you would normally contact the owner and ask them to include your feed. That step is not needed with Antenna.

So, when someone publishes a blog/gemlog post and you would like to “reply” to it, you can just do that: Write your post and then publish the link on Antenna. This means your Gemini capsule doesn’t need to be well known in order to participate. If I read something interesting and would like to reply, I could do that right now – instead of having to wait for the webmaster of the aggregator to include/unlock my feed.

Also, it’s just arbitrary Gemini links in Antenna – unlike a blog aggregator, where everything is a blog post. So I just saw someone publishing a link titled “A wild twtxt appears” and that’s just a link to their twtxt file.

In many ways, this thing is a bit more like a forum than a blog aggregator. Or maybe you could also call it a “bus”.

@asquare@asquare.srht.site Yeah, that would have been overkill. :-) Hello and welcome, btw. 👋

@asquare@twtxt.net I guess someone follows you from my pod (twtxt.net) so welcome 🤗 (if you see this)

@prologic@twtxt.net :waves: So it seems! I must admit that it surprised me. I did not expect to have anyone following me quite this early. But it’s the nice kind of surprise :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Actually, my twts from the last two days aren’t showing up on , so I guess that no-one is following me and the reason my earlier twts did show up is that yarnd does a one-off fetch of any feed @-mentioned by a pod member. Comments in the code suggest that this is the case, see internal/server.go, commit 7dcec70e, line 468. As the author of that code, can you confirm/deny?

@asquare@asquare.srht.site (I wonder if that will ever show up without me mentioning you. 😅)