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I just published a new post on my gemlog: gemini://tilde.club/~adou/gemlog/sad.gmi about what links us all geminauts.
2 years ago · 👍 martin, skyjake, lykso, ser, calgacus, moddedbear, gnuserland, cobradile94, hyperlinkyourheart
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@kevinsan I thought Gemini *was* the chill-out room! · 2 years ago
@defunct The comparison to hosting a website and writing HTML is a good one. There's a range of possibilities for publishing on the web, from posting on Facebook to sitebuilders like Wix to managing your own dedicated server and web development stack. The same is true of Gemini. You could just post here on Station, or use various hosting options where you just write the gemfiles, or host your own capsule. Some people seem to be comparing the easiest options on the web to the most difficult option on Gemini. · 2 years ago
I see a lot of bias in Maya's article. I don't think Gemini as a walled garden with a smaller comunity; for me the whole point about Gemini is because it s simply better than the modern WWW.
Easier to administrate and easier to create content, easy to read.
However I do not browser Gemini that much, I am more focusing on my content. I have lot of stuff in progress but none of those ready yet. 🙁 · 2 years ago
I wonder if Maya's sadness is a come-down from dopamine rush! Maybe we need to create the digital equivalent of a chill-out room. · 2 years ago
this is mostly regarding the flavour of the original author, Maya, who looks at the world of Gemini and wishes everyone would be there. but even if it was inside Firefox, people wouldn't be there, not by a longshot. the assessment in the gemlog is probably more accurate 😉 · 2 years ago
and regarding the growth of Gemini. or the popularity. is it really a bad thing if only 10k people use it? or just 500? it's apparently ok if there are 15 people in a WhatsApp group and getting an invite would mean befriending one member, but learning how to use a browser is now walling out someone? the argument is about entitlement, being able to access everything without investment · 2 years ago
I don't think the barrier is high. install Lagrange and off you go. hosting a capsule, sure. but hosting a website in Europe? far from simple, too. just because there is a very complicated UI to follow it's suddenly simple, but using winscp is hard. writing html, simple. writing gemtext, hard. that's BS. you need to learn things. the same is true for everything · 2 years ago
I didn't read the original article, but I do think having a small population (or slow growth, at least) helps protect whatever culture has already developed. (The "Eternal September" meme illustrates this idea.)
As marginalia has said, I think this *is* an esoteric space and as such will likely remain small unless something happens to give it broader appeal. · 2 years ago
you're right, not every place should be for everyone. however it's one thing to be interesting just for a few people and actively trying to keep people out. I don't think Gemini is actively doing that, and that was my argument 🙂 · 2 years ago
Not everything needs to cater to everyone, and indeed attempting to cater to everyone often means neglecting the long tail. I don't think that's elitist in the slightest. Esoteric spaces are allowed to exist, and while there are some communities dedicated to say extremely difficult video games that are elitist, gemini really isn't. I think if gemini is making people feel inferior, they were more than likely having self-esteem issues beforehand. · 2 years ago