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After some consideration and a lot of reading, I've decided that I'll be retracting Gemmention.
First, a brief aside. I always feel that it needs to be pointed out that when I refer to the "Gemini community", it feels odd because Gemini is a protocol, and a protocol does not a community make. Therefore I'm primarily referring to the more prominent users as discoverable from Antenna/Cosmos/CAPCOM and the now-defunct Gemini mailing list.
The motivation for Gemini's birth was, as I understand it, primarily to be a better Gopher. It makes sense then that the Gemini community continues to hold this ideal; many proponents of Gemini view it as an antithesis to the modern Web, and Gemini's specifics have thus far ensured that a large majority of its users are, for a lack of a better term, advanced users of computers.
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/why-gopher-needs-crypto.txt
This is a reason why I never felt quite comfortable being here. I'm a native of the Web and I've never used Gopher before. My beliefs seem to, in some sense, be fairly counterpositioned to those of the community, and the community seems to hold them quite strongly.
This positioning of Gemini as "not Web" (or at least "not quite Web") is reasonable, and I respect that. But I must state that I don't hold this ideal as strongly as most people do. I came to Gemini not because I hated the Web, even though I have my qualms with it; I did so because I saw a blank canvas for unbounded creativity restricted only by the simple-as-hell protocol that, despite everything, is powerful to do so many things, much like Turing equivalence allows any environment to provably be powerful without bound.
I do share the Gemini values of being strongly pro-privacy and anti-tracking, anti-surveillance-capitalism and anti-featureitis, but I also believe that the current set of users and viewpoints expressed on Gemini, and the things that Gemini has been used to do, can be expanded. Tautologically this means that sometimes Gemini will need to be made to do things that are more typical of the Web, as much as it might be counter to the spirit of Gemini or the beliefs of its users.
I can already see that this is a "ship of Theseus" argument. And I don't deny it; this is a road that /can/ lead to Gemini becoming the Web. But on the other hand, this is also the way how Gopher lead to Gemini. I believe that, when done carefully, it can be navigated without succumbing to the extreme.
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For anyone reading, kindly don't post my feed to Antenna or whatever while this post is still fresh. I don't think I want to stir people's feelings any more than they've already been.