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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by dmitriid on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:27AM (#33020305)
A lot of these (Gemini included) throw the baby out with the bath water.

Yes, we want pages small. But we also want images and video in those pages, and those can and will be quite large.

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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by betwixthewires on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:08AM (#33021768)
Speak for yourself. I'd just like to click a video link and have it open in VLC.
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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by sodimel on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:31AM (#33020367)
(you can point to images in gemini pages, you just can't display them, and it changes my way to consume this content)
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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by onemoresoop on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:30AM (#33021195)
Yes for distraction free content!!!
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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by dmitriid on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:57AM (#33021622)
Someone mentioned this site in the comments: https://woodgears.ca/

For example, this kind of visual tutorial page is impossible in Gemini: https://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/linear.html

In it's insistence on "human consumption of predominantly written material" Gopher has removed the possibility of such content, too.

Edit: corrected a link

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