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I've read many articles, posts, forums about the usefulness of Gemini.
Some think that Gemini is a bad idea, because it is necessary to install a specific client to browse content.
On the other side, some do not trust their web browser any more, even if it could load and display lightweight and respectful web sites : it is too dangerous because you don't know if you really go to a light site or a bloated one before loading it.
I agree with both points of view. That's why I prefer to use a solution able to double post content, in gemini and http+html. It permits to access it with a classical web browser (in a lightweight format) and with a gemini client.
If use already use a site generator, such as Hugo, it's easy to produce gemini format in parallel of html version.
Bacardi55 explains how he does that with Hugo
Hugo-to-Gemini Markdown converter does the job without touching the standard Hugo produtcion chain
This approch is totally different, it uses gemini content, which is easy to produce with a simple text editor, as primary source for the gemini capsule and the html rendered version.
Kineto, for example, serve a gemini capsule through http/html (golang)
Ergol-http do the same in a classical web environment (php)
Finally, it's not very difficult to satisfy everyone !