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I've been looking at the Gemini protocol since it appeared but I preferred to do a very light and simple HTML blog. I have been writing in french for 17 years and I would like to begin something different. I'm still hesitating between Gemini or a "side project" of my blog. With gemblue, it's an easy way to test the Gemini protocol without having the time to build a small server somewhere.
I don't know exactly what this gemlog would be in the future, ...or if it will have some future. If you look at my former blog (cheziceman.fr), I talked about culture, geek stuff, geopolitics, poetry, photography, and many other things. This time, I want to write shorter texts,sometimes poetry, sometimes fiction, sometimes reactions about news. I really don't know yet.
What is interesting for me in the gemini protocol is its simplicity. But the problem for me is the idea of a different protocol, different tools to use it...A small bubble in the vast web of the Internet. I would like a different WWW, easier for people to create, easier to read everywhere even with a small terminal, lighter for resources, energy. So Gemini is a good idea but for me too closed for "mainstream". It's like the problem of GNU/Linux (that I use...) for computers : It's a good "product" but people have a bad idea of it, considering it too difficult to use, although this is not true nowadays. Suggesting a new way of creating and reading content is something I had in mind in the last version of my blog but I want to go further, bearing in mind that my grandmother could use it.
Of course, Gemlog.blue is a very simple tool to create, maybe too simple to edit or structure a blog/g(em)log but it's one idea among many. I left myself until the end of this year to decide which solutions I wanted to keep. So this was my first entry here
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