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Pierre-Jean Baraud pierre-jean at baraud.fr
Mon Feb 22 17:07:52 GMT 2021
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Hello everyone,
Drew DeVault wrote:
The only means we have of regulating this behavior is by making a
statement with our client and server implementations.
Most recently, favicons. Contrary to Sean's nasty comments, I am only
making statements on behalf of *my* software, not Gemini as a whole, and
I have every right to. You have every right to make statements on behalf
of your software, too. Clients like Amfora have already done so by
implementing favicons. Mine is a statement of opposition, and we will
ultimately have to come to some kind of consensus. This is how protocol
ecosystems work.
I am very new to the game (this is my first mail in this mailing list) andI never really participated in any "protocol ecosystems" in making.Nevertheless, is there not a risk in that game that'sthe most popular implementation defines the rule and hence, the gameis not being right, but being popular?
Finally, to clarify the role of srht.site: I did not intend to issue an
unstated threat of leveraging srht.site's influence to strong-arm Amfora
in this respect. There is not a case of "deliberate timing" here. My
statement regarding the possibility of black holeing was only with
respect to gmnisrv, which is a minority player in the field of Gemini
servers. I don't intend to shove this view onto all users of srht.site -
that's well beyond the scope of appropriate influence. I understand why
this was not clear, and I'm sorry for the confusion.
That is very nice to clarify that. But it still raises the concern ofsuch risk infuture by an actor of similar size: will the stick not overcome anyrational debate?
Also, unrelated, but I have learnt a lot from this mailing list through thesedifferent debates and I think I start to have a better idea now ofGemini's philosophythanks to you all (and I'm sure many of my first intuitions would havefirst beenconsidered as anti-pattern / recreating the web)·This learning has been very organic, almost chaotic and only thanks tothe peopleposting "wrong" initiatives here as the answer they receive served for me asguidelines as "Gemini philosophy".Is there anywhere a more structured document, the equivalent of "unixphilosophy"but for Gemini that would express the intention behind some of the"limitation"/restrictionsof the platform that a newbie like me could refer to instead oflearning "by chance"this through some response here and there (and sorry if it is an obvious linkthat I am not aware about) ?