How many people knew where the '#' key was prior to Twitter? How many people knew where the '`' key was prior to Gemini? When your grandparents can find '`' on the keyboard Gemini has mainstreamed - Perhaps they^1 can serve as a tripwire to eject the protocol from the group^2? ^1 Only your grandparents' cognition, nobody elses elders ^2 textual diambiguation wise, group is perhaps a little ambiguous, I had to cross reference again a hash of unknown societies before determining it was (indeed) the RFD Usenet group ==================== Jonathan McHugh indieterminacy@libre.brussels October 5, 2021 5:27 AM, "Nathan Galt" <mailinglists@ngalt.com> wrote: >> On Oct 3, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:54:39 +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 00:16, Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> wrote: >> >> merged group for c.i.gopher and c.i.gemini – but lacking a … name >>> "Small-web" or "small-net" are sometimes used, most often to describe a >>> combination browser for these protocols. >>> There's quite a bit of overlap between the communities. >> >> Thanks, so true! And so I began to write an RFD document for "Small Scale >> Hypertext Information Systems" in the same pad (carbon copy below): >> https://pads.ccc.de/comp-infosystems-gemini-rfd >> >> Please, anybody feel free to edit along and/or give other input, also on >> the name and the byline, and the whole endeavour, of course, as I do not >> want to diminish the efforts already put into the first RFD process. > > This might be a fantastically premature question, but: > > Twitter was once a small Ruby on Rails app. Since “small” is a functional definition, does a > protocol get booted out of the group if it becomes too popular?
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