On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:37:44PM +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 18:58, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> wrote: >> Yes, this is important for outreach. Some Gemini fans advertise Gemini >> with a reference to Gopher. However, Gopher means nothing for the >> young people. I get what you mean, but you'd be surprised at how many Gophers aren't old enough to drink in the U.S. (i.e., <21yo). At least a fifth of the gophers I've met on IRC were around my age group (20±5). > The opposite isn't too good though, from the two videos that popped up > on my YouTube homepage they seemed to describe it as a "replacement > for the web" and as if the aim was to take tracking for the web. Which > Gemini is not. Agree that this is problematic. I prefer to describe Gemini as "an alternative to--but not a replacement of--the Web and Gopher". > Myself I learnt about Gemini via the OpenStreetMap Discord server > (libre volunteer mapper community^). > I can't remember exactly, but I was complaining about the web and > someone gave a link to the Gemini Wikipedia page. This is very similar to my experience; I was initially introduced to Gemini on IRC by another teen when I complained about the Web, but I didn't go all-in until some bloggers and Fediverse users started talking about + adopting it. -- /Seirdy
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