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Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 08:56:31 GMT 2021
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> writes:
My experience with promoting Gemini is that, in almost every
case, the
criticisms I hear against Gemini are addressed in the FAQ,
section
2. And, most of the times, well addressed, in my opinion.
Indeed. i've encountered people discussing Gemini as something intended to supersede the Web, even though the opening text of gemini.circumlunar.space states:
Gemini is a new internet protocol which:
Is heavier than gopher
Is lighter than the web
Will not replace either
and FAQ 1.4 states:
1.4 Do you really think you can replace the web?
Not for a minute! Nor does anybody involved with Gemini want to
destroy Gopherspace. Gemini is not intended to replace either
Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as
one more option which people can freely choose to use if it
suits them.
That said, in terms of FAQ 1.1:
You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its
essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised a little",
depending upon your perspective.
i prefer the latter perspective, as i think the former tends to encourage people to think of Gemini along the lines of, say, HTTP 1.1 and HTML 3.2.
Alexis.