Hi there, In the times of short attention span content, flashy and heavy websites, I was wondering if people would be interested in some of the lightweight, text based web services here on disroot. Something like gemini/html capsule/blog posting or writefreely so it’s also federated, a bbs, tilde or other service.

What are your thoughts on this?

  • meazMAEnglish
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    9 days ago

    What about using forgejo ?

  • vas@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m using disroot a bit and I’m interested to understand this, however, what is an “html capsule”? Or should I split the sentence differently, e.g. “gemini/html” capsule? (I’ve tried searching some of those terms, but I’m getting a lot of wrong hits I think.)

    Also, how does it differ from lemmy? I mean, lemmy’s pretty lightweight from what I can tell.

    If I’m not the target audience for this question feel free to tell, I don’t claim that I am but I’m interested in understanding

    • muppethOPMAEnglish
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      9 days ago

      gemini is an internet protocol similar to html but more based on text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) Capsule refers to a site similar to website in html. So the idea behind this would be to provide a space where people could create their own blogs (in case of html) or capsules (in case of gemini) where the emphasis is on text. So no images, no (or very little) css and other visuals for the site. One of the examples could be the main instance of flounder: https://flounder.online/

      • vas@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        Thanks for the response! I think I’d personally try something like that, but I have no idea whether it’ll stick.

        Overall, the idea of a significantly simpler (than HTML) protocol sounds intriguing, especially to break the google chrome near-monopoly.