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Somewhere on the mainweb there is an email calling the early web line-mode client a mistake. The client, popular with hackers (the good kind), did not support writing back to the server. The use case stuck, and the web became a broadcast medium. Creating content became an entirely separate thing from consuming, and the web became a star-shaped thing, with a few servers and many browsers.
Even much later, instead of everyone serving their stuff, we open accounts on other people's machines, and are either swept into a commoditized blogging system or forced to spend a lot of money on custom sites...
Gemini markup protocol is almost non-existant, by design. It is entirely possible to have a Gemini editor, and the browser can be an editor too. Why can't we store the files back to the server or the file system?
Local files are obviously accessible. Servers can easily authenticate clients using SSL. This is not hard.