Way back in the 90s I discovered gopher. It was magical, like some difficult to navigate, decaying place hidden from a web going corporate even back then. The problem I had with it was I couldn’t find anything of use.

Now, looking at gemini, I get the same vibe. It has the same magical promise.

What do you use gemini for? For information or just browsing around? Do you want to create a blog or other content? Why in gemini and not on the web?

  • Seirdy
    6•3 years ago

    I follow peoples’ gemlogs, browse geddit, and host my own Gemini capsule which has pretty much the same content as my Web site.

    I love the information flow; one line has exactly one meaning (heading, link, bullet, blockquote, or preformatted-text toggle), and that meaning doesn’t change halfway through the line. Different clients can render pages with wildly different appearances; presentation is up to the user agent, not the author.

    All it’s missing IMO is optional compression and some sort of hint to give screenreaders around preformatted blocks to let them know whether or not to skip them. The former could help in low-bandwidth settings and the latter would improve accessibility.