Gemini is a little gem

Re:Gemini is a little gem by nathell on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:03PM (#30092646)

In 2019, I wrote about the need for a web of documents [0], where I wrote about the importance of having static documents and sketched another approach.

Gemini is a web of documents. A rudimentary one, but very content-focused – the signal-to-noise ratio is typically much higher than on WWW. You can visit any capsule in the Geminispace and have full confidence that it’ll only serve you gemtext to read.

[0]: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by throw10920 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:18PM (#30092874)

On a technological level, the web that we have now is far better suited to being a web of documents than Gemini is or ever will be.

It's one thing to say "we're going to build our own silo of high-quality content", but another to intentionally cripple its technical capabilities, which is what happened with Gemini.

Gemini, the protocol, is extremely bad even for making a web of documents.

Gemini, the network of content, might have a higher SNR than the web - but that's no excuse for pushing a protocol that is flat-out hostile to the transfer of information and knowledge.

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by chillfox on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:47AM (#30097903)

Images and video are significant content and while some text does just as well without it, like fiction, most text content is made better by images, video, animations, diagrams or drawings.

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