I am honestly surprised at the lack of abuse this service is getting, as a recent post to HN about a similar service offered an email-to-post service, was stuffed full of spam posts.
I love the URL-as-a-real-place concept too, makes me think back to old Geocities URLs.
I host a site for free with a random French at “unbon.cafe”, I sent him a ssh key and now I can push file in folder; that it. I have a Gemini site up and running.
I visited this site last year and it had a completely different look and feel. I almost thought maybe some CSS or JS wasn't loading and I was seeing an unenhanced version, but it's been rebuilt on a new platform. Had not really heard about gemini before....
This reminds me of a USENET newsgroup (can't remember the name) that I frequented decades ago. It was a bar/pub/dive of some sort. Patrons adopted an appropriate personae and sat around musing over their adult beverage of choice about the world. Everything old is new again...
It had a Turbo button and we made sure it was always on. As to what it did, none of us really knew. But it was on, and there was a problem if it was off. So even if it wasn't connected to anything inside the beige tower it still made things better.
I love this idea — a sort of virtual location that takes the place of cafes and bookstores that no longer exist in the real world.
I've given some thought as to how VR could be applied to something like this and, furthermore, how an IRC-esq protocol for VR rooms and characters could work. I'm waiting for WebXR to advance a bit more before trying to implement it myself, but I'd be really interested in community discussion of the idea.
I’m very interested in this space also. Especially living remotely, I find HN to be my primary place for meeting like minded people.
Even when I go to cities, intentional spaces for people to openly discuss ideas and collaborate aren’t really promoted. The layout of venues doesn’t really encourage this either.
I’m a freelance software/web dev. Have no experience with VR/AR/MR, mainly because I’ve not felt it to be quite there yet. That may be changing though. How about you?
At first I thought this was some sort of collaborative fiction world building thing then got a little sad when I saw it was basically any random blog posts people want to write.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 64.8 ms ] threadI love the URL-as-a-real-place concept too, makes me think back to old Geocities URLs.
Don't jinx them haha!
I host a site for free with a random French at “unbon.cafe”, I sent him a ssh key and now I can push file in folder; that it. I have a Gemini site up and running.
The whole thing is manual , Simple and quaint.
This reminds me of the MySpace era :)
this virtual city they created made me feel very nostalgic about the early days of the web.
[0] https://cosmic.voyage/
I remember running Lynx on Linux using slow modems but these were 386 and 486 PCs. I wonder what was that "turbo XT".
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
For instance posts by "torpor"
Feature request: Hide the reply box if I should not be able to reply =)
I've given some thought as to how VR could be applied to something like this and, furthermore, how an IRC-esq protocol for VR rooms and characters could work. I'm waiting for WebXR to advance a bit more before trying to implement it myself, but I'd be really interested in community discussion of the idea.
Even when I go to cities, intentional spaces for people to openly discuss ideas and collaborate aren’t really promoted. The layout of venues doesn’t really encourage this either.