A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web

Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by rumanator on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:00PM (#23733843)

> would do almost nothing to create a clearly demarcated space where people can go to consume only that kind of content in only that kind of way.

That misses the fact that people don't want any of that; people just want to continue using the current infrastructure without functionalities that rely on a limited subset of features made available by the current infrastructure.

And that doesn't justify the effort of reinventing the wheel.

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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by krapp on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:34PM (#23734049)

Clearly some people do want that, though, especially here. Evey week or so we have a thread about how terrible the modern web is and inevitably there's a subthread about how someone just needs to create an extremist, minimal fork of HTML with no CSS and no JS and create a new, hip web with blackjack and hookers.

I imagine the exclusivity of something like this is part of the appeal. They don't want to be part of the current infrastructure, they don't want to interact with it, or anyone on it.

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