Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
by lifthrasiir on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:00AM
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I don't consider 1024 bytes as "mid length", especially considering non-Latin scripts. For the comparison Twitter's 280-character-of-sort limit translates to the maximum of 840 UTF-8 bytes (reachable for many Middle Eastern writing systems).
I also don't find the usage of SFTP or IPFS reasonable because that would mean two separate clients necessary for a single Gemini site. In fact I personally imagined email instead and email alone can already handle the forum usage (i.e. mailing lists). Gemini at the current state is simply not meant to be used as a full-featured forum. I do think there is a rather simple extension to allow that usage (add an equivalent of HTTP POST to the request protocol, and extend INPUT to give a pre-filled template), but any additional feature to Gemini can possibly weaken its merits.
I also don't find the usage of SFTP or IPFS reasonable because that would mean two separate clients necessary for a single Gemini site. In fact I personally imagined email instead and email alone can already handle the forum usage (i.e. mailing lists). Gemini at the current state is simply not meant to be used as a full-featured forum. I do think there is a rather simple extension to allow that usage (add an equivalent of HTTP POST to the request protocol, and extend INPUT to give a pre-filled template), but any additional feature to Gemini can possibly weaken its merits.