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Sustainability doubts

Gemini is feeling like /dev/null again.

Don't get me wrong. We're talking lots of really interesting people writing fairly interesting things. And I can't tell you how impressed I am with @skyjake for creating gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/ and the Lagrange browser.

But the writing side of Gemini quickly feels like:

$ echo "This is a post that seems insanely fun
> and interesting to me, but almost certainly
> eye-rollingly boring to others!" >/dev/null

Somewhat related is this familiar feeling:

Will this content will be lost

which is all the more familiar when realizing/remembering it's not just online content getting lost.

But back to Gemini: the sense of content getting lost starts about half an instant after a post publishing.

You'd think this would be easy to solve. But such thinking wouldn't take into account the stultifying physical/conceptual isolation of individuals.

Hmmm.

I guess we'll see....

$ ./throw-latest-post-over-the-dev-null-wall