Favourite Gemini Service?

Discovery on the small web is sometimes difficult and I am sure there are amazing services/applications that I would love to use but don’t know about so wanted to do some crowd sourcing to find out about some of peoples favourites and what they do? Also some of their features which are particularly cool.

I’ll start with mine, these are apps/services I use every day

services

bubble (this bbs)

This is just great software, very well thought out and the typographic design is is a delight on the eyes.

apps

lagrange (browser)

Damn fine, same author as above and it shows.

proxies

miniflux-gemini (miniflux http proxy)

I already had a miniflux instance running and this gemini proxy makes accessing it a delight. Allows me to read feeds from the big web inside my gemini browser, UX is well thought out.

duckling-proxy (http proxy)

Allows viewing http content via a gemini browser. This one is a mixed bag. I run an instance but often find reading converted content annoying. In general I dislike http content directly translated into gemtex. Tends to have too many links, poor structure for readability etc. Perhaps could be improved.

servers

tootik (activity pub server)

Fediverse server (think mastadon etc) with a gemini UI, I don’t fully get the fediverse but this is dead simple to setup and works well. Currently using to cross post tinylog entries.

spsrv (spartan server)

Does very little, works great. Planning to replace with one server to rule them all.

gmid (gemini server)

Does very little, works. Planning to replace with one server to rule them all.

gophernicus (gopher server)

Does little, works great. Planning to replace with one server to rule them all.

nexd (nex server)

Does very very little, works great. Planning to replace with one server to rule them all.

Posted in: s/Geminispace

☀️ sbr

Jul 04 · 4 days ago · 👍 skyjake, dce, bsj38381

7 Comments ↓

🛰️ repeater · Jul 04 at 09:53:

Same for me on the first two: this BBS and Lagrange!

For servers, I can only say that OpenBSD's relayd and inetd are fantastic and make writing your own server very easy. They eliminate the need to worry about TLS and concurrency respectively: So long as you can read from stdio and write to stdout and stderr, you can write a Gemini server for static content. (On Linux, you can do the same thing with stunnel and systemd socket activation. It's not as pleasant though.)

💎 pista · Jul 04 at 15:20:

You might want to check out gmcapsule by the Lagrange author. It's a very nice server, offering support for streaming over gemini and also a module for browing git repositories over gemini.

🚀 stack · Jul 04 at 16:32:

Antenna provides me with just enough when I feel like branching out from BBS.

— warmedal.se/~antenna/

☀️ sbr [OP] · Jul 04 at 16:51:

@pista, my religion permits the use of python applications but not running them.

@stack yes I also like antenna. As well as this gopher one.

— gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta

🚀 clarahd · Jul 04 at 18:00:

On ereaders that run KOReader app, there is the gemini plugin, as a gemini client.

I did list some of the first handy sites I found when I started on Gemini:

— bbs.geminispace.org/s/ereader/28755

Also, the Buran android app was usable on my clamshell dumbphone.