#Geminispace

(So, since this is a rare public post I should mention that I wasn't aware of the Yesterweb drama from 2023 until a few hours ago, so please bear with me and my stupidity. I also mirrored this post to my Nekoweb blog and made some very minor, rather irrelevant edits: jevel.nekoweb.org/blog/2026/28)

While Yesterweb's Discord and forum shut down three years ago, their Geminispace hosting service still was up, albeit in a neglected state. It lacked a valid certificate for a year and only a few weeks ago a new one has been issued that's valid until February, 2027. I emailed Iris ("seapunk") about this last year but never received a response and this should've been a clear sign that things got a little bad behind the scenes, even without being aware of the drama surrounding a few admins that tried to turn Yesterweb into some Lenin-style revolution.

Somewhere after 20 February, 2026 all capsules Yesterweb hosted on Geminispace got wiped of their gemtexts, only leaving empty directories behind. I was busy and bedridden around this time and only noticed it last night, so I emailed Iris again and was surprised to receive a response this time around but even moreso about them admitting that they don't even maintain Yesterweb's Geminispace capsule, despite their email being listed as the one to refer to when issues with Yesterweb's capsule hosting service arise. They forwarded my email to two other people, Tsvety and D4708, and the former gave a detailed response as to what happened:

I am running that server, have backups, and control the domain (but not every service under it). First of all, let me apologize for the unexpected, unannounced, and unexplained going-offline. I became aware of this issue (thanks to D4708) on the morning of the 25th, the logs pointed to it having happened on the 23rd, and I immediately shut the server down. In an ideal world, I would send out a mass email to all users while I immediately work on a fix. However, I do not have anybody's contact info and have nary an ounce of spare time until the 1st, where I can only spend a few hours.

The logs only go back a week or two and seem to indicate that a malicious actor abused the webdav uploading service, deleted everything, and took a look through all of the server's files. I also saw log messages that show that somebody knows that this thing is running on PM2 and that they tried to log into ssh with specific PM2-related creds. It has kind of spooked me for a while that this has been running on my machine and I don't know what's inside of it, and this really confirmed that in my uninformed eyes. I had to fiddle with nodejs packages one or two years ago and I almost broke it.

Tsvety states that a backup exists but only for gemtexts and directories created up until 1 February, 2026. Anything that was published between 2 and around 23 February is gone, unless capsule owners kept their own local backups or some Geminispace crawler picked it up to archive.

I can probably help somebody get this thing running on somebody else's server and point the DNS to them (ideal!). I can make an attempt to host this content with a mainstream gemini server as a bandaid, thus making the whole thing read-only. I can't do anything other than provide copies of the data until at least the 1st.

I'm not going to blame Iris, Tsvety or D4708 who act in good faith and at least try to be transparent about it, despite their individual time and energy constraints.
They'd have emailed every capsule owner if Yesterweb required email registrations, which it doesn't, so I'm relaying this to anyone who may be just as out of the loop of anything Yesterweb and Geminispace/smol web stuff snd those still using Yesterweb on Geminispace. However considering that a malicious actor who may be related to the 2023 drama went out of their way to hack into Yesterweb's Geminispace server and delete every gemtext it hosted almost exactly three years after the project's Discord shut down should make everyone glad that they didn't rely on email registration or else personal email addresses and password's could've gotten stolen. This still affects private keys, though, and right now no capsule hosted on Yesterweb should be considered still belonging to those that created them, including mine (magda.cities.yesterweb.org).

Knowing this, I'll move my own stuff somewhere else. I still don't know whether I'll stay on Geminispace and move to flounder.online or capsule.town OR go through the hassle of converting every gemtext into HTML or a different Markdown flavor to host on the HTTP web, further delaying the start of this year's observation season regardless. I'm still not fully recovered and my brain hurts from nearly losing two and a half years of work (which I luckily manage offline via local copies) AND reading about the 2023 drama shortly after.

#Yesterweb #SmolWeb #Geminispace

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-25

Autenticación y verificación con Signify, en mi cápsula #gemini Archienemigos

gemini://moribundo.flounder.on

> Cambia gemini:// por https:// para verlo en tu navegador web <

#geminiprotocol #geminispace

YGGverseyggverse
2026-02-25

free hosting needs your help with setting up the new infrastructure after a server fault (currently unavailable). Please follow this thread for more details:

=> gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-25

Nuevo artículo "Cifrando con Age" en mi cápsula #gemini Archienemigos, algo largo, pero era necesario.
gemini://moribundo.flounder.on

>Cambia gemini:// por https:// para verlo en tu navegador web<

#geminiprotocol #geminispace

Ой пиздець /o\ по ходу адміни хостингу #Yesterweb наплужили з конфігом #WebDAV через що я в процесі виконання свого ./push - отримав Веб-рут і #rclone його тепер нещадно нищить разом з усіма юзерами (скріншот)

#geminiprotocol #geminispace

Yesterweb
:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-22

PGP es vulnerable y se recomienda no utilizarlo, nueva entrada en mi cápsula #gemini Archienemigos
gemini://moribundo.flounder.on

* Cambia gemini:// por https:// para verlo por web

#geminiprotocol #geminispace

2026-02-20

Ich hab jetzt auch meine eigene Gemini Capsule im #geminispace . In der logge ich meine Eskapaden als Spielleitung einer Kingmaker-Kampagne (#pathfinder2e) und dokumentiere meine Retro Dinge (sei es Tech, Gaming, Musik oder anderes)

Schaut doch mal gern vorbei.

gemini://alhena.space/

Was für spannende Capsules kennt oder gar frequentiert ihr?

#geminiprotocol #ttrpg #retrocomputing

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-15

Si os interesan los criterios tecnicos del #geminispace aquí os dejo enlace:

gemini://moribundo.flounder.on

> Por cada etiqueta #gemini de Google, una de #geminiprotocol de Solderpunk. Estábamos antes <

Hay que ver la cantidad de usuarios de #geminiprotocol que se apoyan en IA generativa para poner en funcionamiento sus cápsulas.
Me resulta especialmente contradictorio dado que la esencia del protocolo radica supuestamente (según sus propios usuarios) en su simplicidad y, por tanto, su bajo consumo de recursos.

#geminispace

2026-02-15

Lagrange is now available in the Apple App Store. #geminiprotocol #smallweb #gopher #geminispace

Itan   :fediverse: (neo cta.)SolamenteItan@hostux.social
2026-02-14

Pues ya está en marcha mi Gemistación Itan, con tres cápsulas:
— Cápsula (e)lucubración
— Cápsula de Itan sobre Gemini
— y Cápsula de Itan (No soy todo lo que hay, ni está todo lo que soy)

<gemini://itan.pollux.casa>

«Cápsulas Gemini de Itan, con un poco de todo y mucho de nada, pero también con escritos donde no está todo lo que soy ni todo lo que hay es».

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #ProtocoloGemini #cápsulas #GeminiEspacio #GeminiSpace #SolamenteItan #Itan #Gemistation #Gemistación #capsules

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-14

Truco para cápsulas #gemini

Añade una suscripción a tu cápsula, así la gente podrá suscribirse y les saltará una notificación cuando haya alguna novedad.
Es la forma de estar al día con nuestras cápsulas favoritas, algo así como los RSS de las webs
#geminiprotocol #geminispace

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-14

Veo poco contenido sobre la distribución #Linux #Voidlinux y es una pena porque es una distribución genial, la más rápida que he visto nunca en todo.
Así que dejo unos apuntes de mi cápsula #gemini Archienemigos con contenido diverso:

gemini://moribundo.flounder.on

gemini.tildeverse.org/?gemini:

#geminiprotocol #geminispace

Moribundo Insurgente "Chorradas"linuxzx80@fe.disroot.org
2026-02-12
Suenan fanfarrias, llueve confeti, la plebe se arrodilla, y todo para anunciar que hay nueva sección en mi cápsula #gemini "La caja de Pandora", llamada 'La estancia negra', donde iré poniendo mis impresiones sobre los libros que vaya leyendo.

Sería demasiado tedioso poner toooooodos los libros que he leído, así que empezaré desde 2024, año en el que adquirí mi ereader Kobo Clara B/W

gemini://pandora.flounder.online/estancia/index.gmi

https://pandora.flounder.online/estancia/index.gmi

#geminiprotocol
#geminispace
:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-11

@aperalesf Bueno, yo la sección de enlaces https la voy a dejar, ya que son chulos y no hay alternativa en #geminispace (#gemini surgió para lo que surgió).
Pero a cada entrada nueva que publique por aquí ya no pondré ambos enlaces.

:arch: Moribundo Insurgentemoribundo@hispagatos.space
2026-02-11

He decidido que ya no voy a añadir enlaces https en mis publicaciones #gemini (salvo casos excepcionales).
Me gusta el protocolo, me gusta su visualización (sobretodo desde el navegador #Lagrange ) y quieto fomentar su uso, y traducirlo a https no ayuda.
Si verdaderamente te gusta lo que publico y quizá te llame la atención el mundo #geminispace lo entenderás, si no, puedes cambiar gemini:// por https://
Y si no, a otra cosa, no monetizo ni gano nada con ello.
#geminiprotocol

Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:Larvitz@burningboard.net
2026-02-08

The BGP article is also available on the Geminispace for those who prefer the lightweight web:

gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bg

No tracking, no JavaScript, just text. Accessible via clients like Lagrange or Amfora.

#gemini #smallweb #FreeBSD #geminispace

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