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I understand the desire for more than text. And, in a way, focusing away from html seems a bit silly given one can be fairly minimal (in the "absence of other than text" sense) therein.

But I've fondness for those fond of said unnecessarily radical departure. I want to encounter them. Read them. Exchange winks with them over how the seemingly endless expansion of html (I'm looking at you, Javascript) is probably more about bringing idiots into the information fold - despite idiocy having natural enmity with with information - seemingly a sort of evolutionary branch off the good 'ole Eternal September....

To me, far too many webpages have become jokes of modal interruptions and html entity shifts: "Hey! It's time to insert a new chunk of advertising right where text you *almost* grasped *was*... good luck finding it again, and maybe sorta kinda establishing the mental context you might have attained unto minus the interruption(s)!"

(And of course that's giving said code monkeys *waaaaaay* too much acuity credit....)

Maybe Gemini's a natural - though unexpected in some minds - child of minimalism?

Whatever. Main point is I've experienced nothing but cool people fond of said protocol and space. I'll take is mention as evidence of fun intelligence in the vicinity.

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~gerwitz wrote (thread):

Indeed, why would we be here except for the minimalism? I want it, but also a bit of Postel’s law. Getting ‘splained on the mailing list that it’s only network requests that matter really soured me for a bit, there.

Thankfully, I took a deep breath and decided to look for some humanity. It brought me back to the pub, and I’m so glad to be here where we’re just chatting and not trying to assert control over each other. I think I’ll stay and take a moment to avoid talking about Gemini itself.