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From: rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Gemini is no social network
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 22:54:07 +0800
Message-ID: <20211201225407.71979d14@haraya.local.net>
Hi Stephane,
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:17:01 +0100
Stephane Tougard <stephane@unices.org> wrote:
On 2021-11-28, rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> I do agree that gemini should be a "read-only" protocol with
I don't.
Unless the point is only to display text pages over the network (the
network already plenty of tools and protocols to do such things).
The point of Gemini is not to reduce the functionnality to a bare
minimum, it's to ensure a consistency in the way information should be
displayed.
But it does not remove the need for such protocol to build business
application for example. An accounting software could be using Gemini
for example.
We need the ability to receive and send information, build forms and
dynamic software to answer those forms.
Yes, I do agree that Gemini aims to be a protocol that is consistent in
how information is being displayed but I also think that Gemini aims to
be a protocol that distills the presentation of information, as much as
feasible, to its bare minimum. We already have that ability to send and
receive information: That being read-only text on gemini and
discussions on somewhere like usenet or mailing lists. It's simple,
consistent and it takes the best from those protocols.
I don't think Gemini should bear the burden of interactive forms and
whatnot. I think those things are better served to be not in gemini
capsules per se. If you want to plug an accounting software to use
gemini you're already forcing a square peg into a round hole. Those
things are better served as an entirely different protocol that is
built to deal with such data.
Rome wasn't built in a day and the horror that is the modern web isn't
also. It's these small steps towards being 'more dynamic' that made the
web it is today and if gemini aims to avoid that conclusion we should
explore a different path and think of things in a different way.
Cheers
--
Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
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Gemini is no social network (by David <david@arch.invalid> on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:59 +0100)