Using the Gopher Protocol

Lagrange browsing my gopherden gopherhole

⚠️ This post is archived from my phlog in Gopherspace. Please read my post on the Gopher Protocol to get started!

The point of this article is to get you browsing gopherspace quickly and to share some of my favorite gopherholes…

Clients

  • sacc: like gopher, but maybe better. TUI.
  • clic

Waffle

I wrote a Gopher Protocol client called Waffle. Please read my post about Waffle.

Dillo

I wrote about Dillo in a separate post.

Lagrange (Android, Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS)

Lagrange is a Gemini + Gopher Protocol client (maybe more?) for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, I think.

Linux (Flatpak)

Here’s how I set it up:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak install ./fi.skyjake.Lagrange.flatpakref

You may wanna run:

flatpak list

This is how to launch:

flatpak run lagrange 

at first you may get this at suome point:

$ flatpak run lagrange

Note that the directories 

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/tilde/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
session is restarted.

You may want to log in log out/restart session or something.

Try opening gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:7070/

gopher

try gopher -p "/" gopher.someodd.zip 7070

My favorite gopherholes

  • Of course my very own Gopherden forum: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:7070/ and my gopherhole built with burrow gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:7071
  • gopher://mozz.us/: has some games, a flash archive, and other things. If you’re using Lagrange they also have gemini://mozzu.us/!

Also checkout the Gemini protocol!

I think the Gemini Protocol is worth checking out!

Original content in gopherspace: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/0/phlog/gopher.gopher.txt