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                               Adventures in Atom
                                        
I offer up several feeds for my blog, one of the formats being Atom [1], a
much nicer (and better specified) than RSS (Really Simple Syndication) [2]
(which I also offer by the way). There exists an Atom feed aggregator [3] for
Gemini [4]. The Atom specification [5] allows zero or more links to a blog
entry. I discussed this with the author of CAPCOM (the Atom feed aggregator
for Gemini) and it can deal with multiple links. I don't know about any other
Atom aggregators out there, but I'm going to find out, because each entry now
has three links per entry—one to the web version [6], one to the Gemini
version [7] and one to the gopher version [8].

I have a feeling this is going to be fun, and by “fun,” I mean “it will
probably break things somewhere because who is stupid enough to use more than
one link?” 

Update a few moments later …

Of course, becuse of the way I translate links for the gopher version, those
using gopher won't see the web version of the link. Sigh.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
[3] https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/CAPCOM
[4] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
[5] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt
[6] http://boston.conman.org/2020/07/20.1
[7] gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2020/07/20.1
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/0Phlog:2020/07/20.1

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