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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by krapp on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:48AM (#44623844)
It already exists, it's called the Gemini protocol: https://geminiprotocol.net/
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by jmclnx on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:56AM (#44623893)
I moved my site to Gemini, finished middle last year.

Clients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)#Software

Some links to find content:

gemini://sdf.org

gemini://gem.sdf.org

gemini://gemi.dev/xkcd/

gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/

gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/view.gmi

gemini://calcuode.com/gmisub-aggregate.gmi

gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/

gemini://sl1200.dystopic.world/juntaletras.gmi

gemini://tilde.team/~khuxkm/leo/

gemini://raek.se/orbits/space-elevator/

gemini://fediring.net/

Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by thoroughburro on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:15AM (#44624462)
Do you have readers, or is it just for you?
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by jmclnx on Sunday July 20, 2025 @05:18PM (#44629399)
I do not understand. Clients link above has a list of clients to read gemini sites.
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by VoidWhisperer on Sunday July 20, 2025 @05:28PM (#44629454)
They are asking if your site has people viewing/reading it after you moved it to Gemini or if it is just you reading it at that point.
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by jmclnx on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:32PM (#44630722)
>They are asking if your site has people viewing/reading it after you moved it to Gemini

I have no idea. I do not keep track or log any visitors.

Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by sunshine-o on Monday July 21, 2025 @05:44AM (#44633367)
Gemini is a first step in the right direction but it doesn't really have an immune system protecting it to what happened to the web. Meaning what happen when Gemini get so successful that idiots and bots start flowing into it.

My guess is Gemini would be a good starting point to experiment with bold ideas:

- We need some form of web of trust system. As most of the time we are not interested to be exposed or interact with agents more than 1 or 2 hops away of what we trust.

- Sorry but we will need to form of "nano" payment system in place. If a bot want to consume resources on my server, maybe fine but they will have to at least pay for it. We already pay today for every websites using proof-of-work challenges, and I would rather give that money to the person hosting.