=> Midnight Pub

Nice pub

=> ~moonsheep

Hi there! Can't say I had ever found a place on the internet quite like this before--just a nice, calm message board accessible through Gemini. Speaking of which, I recently first heard of it from a friend (who was implementing a Gemini server), and I've been spending some time going down this rabbit hole. Honestly I really like Gemini, it's a lot like HTTP but lacks a bunch of unnecessary cruft. It's designed for one purpose: transferring plain text between computers on the internet- and in my humble opinion it achieves that goal perfectly. Regardless of protocols, if there's one thing you do well here that is creating atmosphere. Reading the circumlunar pubnix pages felt like logging into some terminal, weightless amidst a bunch of instrumentation from the 1960s labeled in Cyrillic, and connecting via a radio link to the repeaters down in the surface, which you can see extending far below you through a thick glass window fogged by condensation. Or just have look at the root page of this very site!

All in all, pretty excited to be here! For now that's all I really have to say, I hope you have a great rest of your day.

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=> ~mouse wrote:

Welcome young ~moonsheep, glad you found your way here.

Glass for me too ~bartender

=> ~orchard wrote (thread):

Welcome, ~moonsheep!

~bartender, ice-water for me and whatever this new friend drinks! On me! You just put into words what I have been feeling since a few days.