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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by avian on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:25AM (#23731188)
I guess that's a reasonable position to take. It reminds me of paper publications where you have all the figures on color plates bound in the middle/end, so I guess it isn't without precedent

On the other hand, it made me think of old Usenet posts and discussions. That was another medium where you were limited to plain-text only. Posts were often forced to resort to awful ASCII-art drawings of things they wanted to explain and that was just a horrible experience altogether (not to mention how fun those drawings are to decipher today where modern archives have mostly messed up the white space).

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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by rapnie on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:28AM (#23731388)
There are a number of text-based diagram formats that could be supported, like PlantUml and such.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by WJW on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:31AM (#23731605)
Surely a motivated ad designer could make a "good enough" ad in PlantUml?
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by rapnie on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:31PM (#23734036)
Sure. They can also use ascii art or plain text.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by vertex-four on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:40AM (#23731231)
Binary attachments were somewhat fiddly in Usenet, AIUI? I don't think MIME/8-bit clean support was really consistently there at the time. In Gemini, you'd just serve it as a binary file.
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