Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @03:46AM
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It's consistently baffling to me to why people try to "attack" Gemini, as if it is some sort of "threat". A threat to what I am not sure. One of the common foibles is they try to compare it to "the web". This is absurd since Gemini is not "the web", nor is it anything close to a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
IMHO, at best Gemini is a Gopher redux. No one is planning to run commerce over Gopher. It is no different for Gemini. It's a "people's protocol", not a corporate one. It does not even have an RFC. It's relatively easy to write clients and servers. No corporate vendor or advertising sponsorship is needed. No one needs to have a "business model" to publish data/information via Gemini.
The Gemini FAQ explicitly addresses critics who see the internet through web-tinted glasses:
1.6 Do you really think you can replace the web?
Not for a minute! Nor does anybody involved with Gemini want to destroy Gopherspace. Gemini is not intended to replace either Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as one more option which people can freely choose to use if it suits them. In the same way that some people currently serve the same content via gopher and the web, people will be able to "bihost" or "trihost" content on whichever combination of protocols they think offer the best match to their technical, philosophical and aesthetic requirements and those of their intended audience.
IMHO, at best Gemini is a Gopher redux. No one is planning to run commerce over Gopher. It is no different for Gemini. It's a "people's protocol", not a corporate one. It does not even have an RFC. It's relatively easy to write clients and servers. No corporate vendor or advertising sponsorship is needed. No one needs to have a "business model" to publish data/information via Gemini.
The Gemini FAQ explicitly addresses critics who see the internet through web-tinted glasses:
1.6 Do you really think you can replace the web?
Not for a minute! Nor does anybody involved with Gemini want to destroy Gopherspace. Gemini is not intended to replace either Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as one more option which people can freely choose to use if it suits them. In the same way that some people currently serve the same content via gopher and the web, people will be able to "bihost" or "trihost" content on whichever combination of protocols they think offer the best match to their technical, philosophical and aesthetic requirements and those of their intended audience.