2021-11-17

Re: gmipay

=> #gemini
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On the mailing list Simon Volpert announced their favourite toy (2021-10-22, link via sloums mailing list gateway):

=> gemini://rawtext.club/~sloum/geminilist/007350.gmi | local copy | https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007350.html

It features a cgi script on a gemini site, which can be used to hide content behind a bitcoin accepting paywall. I'm not convinced that the world has been waiting for exactly this. However, I am not surprised at all, that something like this is being implemented. Imho it is a nice example of "because I can".

Now, answering at all gives the toy more publicity. So I decided to not answer.

On 2021-11-11 Simon announced Verion 1.2 of their toy.

=> gemini://rawtext.club/~sloum/geminilist/007590.gmi | local copy | https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007350.html

Now I found that panda-roux has voiced some strong opinions about it, basically, "Naaa, we are not going to do this".

=> gemini://gemini.panda-roux.dev/log/entry?41 | local copy

In my opinion the only way to avoid such toys is to not use them ever. Good news: I can choose to ignore the toy at any time, without asking for permission.

Cheers,

~ew

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