The Gemini protocol as seen by curl maintainer

Re:The Gemini protocol as seen by curl maintainer by stepupmakeup on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:17PM (#36108316)

does anybody actually use Gemini exclusively, or is it just like Gopher where everybody ends up hosting a HTTP proxy anyway?

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Re:The Gemini protocol as seen by curl maintainer by tolciho on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:52PM (#36108563)

No, but browsing the web with w3m isn't much different than browsing gemini with amfora. And with xterm*colorMode:false set, of course. The web can be a lot worse than gemini, but that's the modern web for you.

(Yes, I know your http log says that this browser is "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 8.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8)"; it is not. It is rather amusing to see what sites break because of this.)

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Re:The Gemini protocol as seen by curl maintainer by tpoacher on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:23PM (#36109187)

Not sure what you mean exclusively. It's not meant to replace the web.

But I often browse Gemini pages, and many people have capsules that don't have web mirrors.

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Re:The Gemini protocol as seen by curl maintainer by halicarnassus on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:15AM (#36111224)

I use Gemini with Lagrange, a Gemini GUI browser, as often as I use a normal web browser or RSS reader to read content. But I enjoy it much more. I'm a less-is-more-person, so it's a good fit for me.

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