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Drew is winding down his gemlog:
If I don’t want to read Gemini, I don’t want to write Gemini either. I don’t think that’s fair to the Gemini community. It would be better to participate from both ends, and if I only find myself enjoying the writing side of it, then I don’t think that forms a good relationship with the community.
I disagree with this conclusion.
Drew, you’re welcome to come and go as you please, that’s not at stake here.
However, I’ve gone through patches where I didn’t enjoy reading a lot on Gemini outside of a handful of faves. I think I might be in such a patch right now. But I kept my capsule up.
Atom feeds are a good analogy. I currently read most of my favorite writers (like the wonderful Web3 is going great) through Atom, or through epub, but that doesn’t mean that I should’ve put my Atom feed on hold back when I went through a patch of not reading Atom as much.
Gemini is just another format and I might as well keep it up. I’m lucky, since I’ve set up my system so that I can easily make gem-only posts (like this one♥), web-only posts, and posts that are on both.
Now, this “it’s just another format” view is sort of a vindication of my perspective that Gemini didn’t simplify the web, it just added another protocol and format on top of the already huge pile of specs; it made the web more complex, not less. Drew concedes (for now) that he still uses https.
That doesn’t mean Gemini is pointless. I’ve found there’s a lot about it to love, as you have, too.