this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
3 points (80.0% liked)

Disroot Community

200 readers
3 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
muppeth@scribe.disroot.org
antilopa@scribe.disroot.org
meaz@scribe.disroot.org
avg_joe@scribe.disroot.org
3
Disroot's SMOLweb like services? (scribe.disroot.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by muppeth@scribe.disroot.org to c/disroot_community@scribe.disroot.org
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Found this which could be helpful to run gemini capsule within html https://git.sr.ht/~aw/flounder

[–] meaz@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What about using forgejo ?

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.ml 2 points 2 weeks 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.