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David Messer davx8342 at gmail.com

Sun Jul 11 12:49:58 BST 2021

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 07:30, ew.gemini <ew.gemini at nassur.net> wrote:

Apparently a lot of people think, but how can I make it do X or

Y too? And in my not so humble opinion, there are protocols

better suited for some or these things. Take "uploading" text.

There is sftp or scp at least. It requires an account on the

receiving side. Yes, well, imho that's a feature and not a

shortcoming. ymmv.

I don't think that's a bad thing, speaking for myself here I couldimmediately see the benefits of Gemini and I wanted to build things usingit. Were they a good fit for Gemini? Maybe not, but at its heart text isthe simplest of file types. Other protocols like NNTP and SMTP have longhad ways of dealing with that. It's not unreasonable that people mightexpect Gemini to have a way of dealing with multi-line user-submitted textcontent.

I live ~5 miles from one of the poorest areas in the UK. The only devicespeople are likely to have access to are tablets or cell phones. SFTP is notso much fun on those types of devices or with users from demographics whomaybe aren't old enough to remember having to FTP their content to a webserver somewhere.

If all people want for Gemini is to use other protocols to upload content,that's absolutely fine. I'm not here to bash Gemini. Quite the opposite.People want to add layers on top of Gemini which maybe aren't such a goodidea precisely because Gemini has highly desirable features.

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