=> 👽 comatoast

We need an rss or equivalent for gopher/gemini

2 years ago

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=> 👽 comatoast

@Smokey You don't think newsboat or some other minimal open source readers could have these protocols added? · 2 years ago

=> 👽 mfoo2

we have one already! it's called gemini feed format. very easy to generate or write by hand. · 2 years ago

=> 👽 smokey

This post helped inspire me to write up an article, in case anyone wanted to read

gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-07-20-rss-proxy.gmi · 2 years ago

=> gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-07-20-rss-proxy.gmi

=> 👽 smokey

@bacardi55 I have tried the proxy method, however the issue in that case is that the atom/rss link contains more gemini/gopher URLS which can't be properly interpreted by the feed reader. Theoretically it might be possible to implement a function into the proxy service which impliments the [proxy-url][article-feed-url] into the actual atom/rss index. Im well aware theres nothing that can be done protocol wise. No good bridges between gemini-exclusive atoms to standard web rss feeders has come into existance (as far as I know) · 2 years ago

=> 👽 bacardi55

You can do either 2 things:

• add support for these protocol in your prefered RSS reader

• Use an http->gemini/gopher proxy to give a "proxied" link to your RSS reader that only know how to communicate over http(s) · 2 years ago

=> 👽 bacardi55

@smokey: this is because the RSS reader doesn't support gemini or gopher protocol, so nothing that can be done at the protocol layer. · 2 years ago

=> 👽 smokey

The problem Ive come across is that most if not all RSS readers fail to fetch feeds from gemini:// or gopher:// urls. They simply aren't programmed to be able to handle alternate protocol formats. You know how badly I would love to read gemini RSS/ATOM feeds through my ereader? · 2 years ago

=> 👽 haze

Anything Atom isn't doing as well as RSS? · 2 years ago