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My initial thoughts on Gemini are how much it reminds me of the internet when I first started using it. My first experience of The Internet was in college in 1997 or so. Many of the sites were run by individuals and it was all a big mess. But a fun mess.
Gemini really feels the same. A bunch of people running a capsule/site just as a hobby. People host pages about things they are interested in. It's great. It really feels like a more "pure" version of the web.
A few years ago I discovered Freenet, which has/had a similar feel. I really got into that at the time. It was more than a little problematic as, due to it's complete anonymity, a fair amount of extremely unacceptable content existed. I did like that you didn't need to have your computer online to host a site, which isn't possible on Gemini, but it feels more common to leave a computer on, connected to 24/7 internet now anyway.
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