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From: rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Gemini is no social network
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:48:48 +0800
Message-ID: <20211128174848.0bb7742f@haraya.local.net>
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:59 +0100
David <david@arch.invalid> wrote:
Gemini is a read-only protocol for hyperlinked content distribution,
as Drew DeVault put it recently. Referring to other people's posts
via one's own posts does not make it a social network. That's just
one-way-linked Gemini space. There are no backlinks, except for
resorting to querying the index of a search engine, maybe.
Also the idea of compiling multiple Gemini texts into an EPUB archive
for later offline consumption very nicely fits to the conception of
Gemini's read-only nature.
Thanks for sharing those thoughts!
gemini://text.eapl.mx/quick-experiment-antenna-to-epub
gemini://drewdevault.com/2021/11/15/Reframing-gemini.gmi
I think it's a vestige of a prior system that we're used to and it
would take a while before we will be able to come up with a truly
"gemini way" of doing things.
I do agree that gemini should be a "read-only" protocol with
discussions happening in either email or newsgroups. Such as what we're
doing right now. This outlook adheres to the UNIX philosophy and is,
for sure, what solderpunk et al. thought of when designing the protocol.
Gemini being a text-only protocol do make it easy to be packaged in
different forms such as that of an e-reader which makes it even more
interesting.
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Gemini is no social network (by David <david@arch.invalid> on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:59 +0100)
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