The new gemini drama
There is a lot of content on gemini these days but it's still an order of magnitude less than the standard web. Without the threat of advertisements and tracking, visiting gemini space is relaxing and I like to go there on the weekends, ideally sitting at home on a quiet Sunday morning.
This weekend I loaded up my lagrange browser and navigated to a gemini feed portal to discover the author of lagrange proposing to extend the protocol to allow markdown. This news was followed by despair and outrage.
Gemini links:
- gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_mark-it-down.gmi
- 2021-10-14 Datapulp : Re: Mark It Down
- 2021-10-14 gerikson: Re: Mark It Down
- 2021-10-14 Idiomdrottning: Re: Mark It Down
- 2021-10-15 Alex Schroeder: 2021-10-15 Re: Mark It Down
- 2021-10-15 hari: Re: Mark it down
- 2021-10-16 Teiresias: A Bit about my Gemini Stack
- 2021-10-16 Idiomdrottning: Gemini Ain't Broke
Though I suspect the protocol will go nowhere without inline images I'm pretty happy with how it works today and I hope they don't try to extend it with other markup features. I'm fully behind making a new protocol (apollo?) with more markup primitives but keep it separate from gemini.
There are weirdos still on gopher. Whenever I go there I can expect to encounter a certain attitude or philosophy that's almost unique to that protocol. Similarly I've come to expect the gemini culture. Mixing new markup into gemini is like letting the clowns rampage through my meditative Sunday morning.
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