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Re: "I'm glad to be part of the one uncool Gemini site. I'm..."
@LittlePrince Your first paragraph is decent, but the second paragraph is just rude and illogical. There are tons of free pubnixes out there that allow for free sign ups (like hashnix) without invitation, and there's nothing wrong with these.
I get that you're trying to fight some of the exclusiveness of some of the people here on Gemini (and there's a lot of people like that!), but by doing it in the way you're doing it, you're also criticizing the most inclusive of peoples, including the creator of Gemini himself (solderpunk) who ran one of these pubnixes (called Zaibatsu Circumlunar Space).
2023-09-05 · 4 days ago
I enjoy Bubble. I know there are people with complaints about it, but I believe I've made the point previously in fact when I first joined. I addressed that if it were the purpose of anybody here to extend/extinguish the spec it would've -already- been that quite a while ago by now. Fact is, anyone that rolls through to this is already a web refugee, and I'm sure nobody else wants to step on anyone else's foot.
I know there are elitists, but they're everywhere, and it's no sense spending any mindpower on that. It's better spent enjoying the tech right at our fingertips, working with it, and doing something great and creative with it. :D
I'm glad to be part of the one uncool Gemini site. I'm happy my posts don't appear on Antenna or Cosmos or any other aggregator until a busy body posts it there. I find it amusing that the people who complain about Bubble bringing a social media aesthetic to Gemini gobble up attention on the aggregators. Bubble provides zero friction hosting for long-form content in Geminispace. Critics don't have to care about that because they are privileged enough to have a clearnet address without fear of...