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Rohan Kumar seirdy at seirdy.one
Tue Apr 27 21:01:37 BST 2021
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 08:31:17AM +0200, 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' wrote:
I don't know if a researcher already did a survey of geminauts, and of
their age. Are they old people nostalgic of the beginning or young
people eager to revolutionize "Dad's Web"? I was also a Usenet admin
at the time of C&S.
20yo here. My first exposure to the Web was Playhouse Disney's flash games when I was 4 (around 2004 I think) and I first published my Gemlog in November 2020. I was introduced to Gemini when I was 19 by a 17-year-old over IRC; IDK what she's up to right now.
My computing preferences aren't exactly "modern": I dislike the modern Web and most GUIs, preferring to stick to CLI and TUI programs (in that order.), and think that people shouldn't have to "upgrade" their computers unless their use-cases change. Naturally, this drew me into Gopher and Gemini. I'd been lurking in a few Gopherholes for a couple years before being introduced to Gemini.
After seeing some bloggers I followed set up Gemlogs and seeing Gemini brought up on the Fediverse a few times, I decided to finally set up a {Gem,Web}log (seirdy.one) on a VPS. It's been a great experience so far.
The main appeal of Gemini to me isn't related to the "old web"; it's that presentation is up to the user agent, not the author. Authors only control content, not form. Normally I have to cross my fingers and hope a page works in retawq or NetSurf before loading it in Firefox, flipping a bunch of uMatrix switches, and seeing if my dark-mode addon broke anything. Gemini "just works": if I click a Gemini link, I'll know I won't have to jump through any hoops or tank my battery life.
While the "old web" tends to work well in textual browsers, it still shares the problem of presentation dictated by authors AFAICT.
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