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From: meff <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: teletext-ish pages?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:33:46 GMT
Message-ID: <_7bYJ.155432$f2a5.106049@fx48.iad>
On 2022-03-03, <joe@example.invalid> <joe@example.invalid> wrote:
Being transport-agnostic would have allowed gemini to function from a
simple perl script server feeding gemini pages from a zip file over a
pipe. SSL breaks a whole host of neat things you could do like that.
(atom feeds that supply pages ala teletext above, even email could be
the basis of a teletext content delivery system .. if not for the SSL
stuff)
Gopher is one of those things the tor network likes because of the
privacy features and because a lot of hidden onion sites are running on
peoples home computers with limited resources. Since you'd be running
over onion anyway, encryption is redundant.
I could really see gemini taking off over tor, SSL is very unfortunate
IMO.
Overall I'd say this is a pretty nifty project, I hope the developers
will consider my input, because I think there is an audience of people
you may not have thought about who would really appreciate it:
Artists, teletext users and tor hidden services.
I don't think Gemini is meant to be a network technology in the same
way that Tor, I2P, Usenet, Gopher, or even private overlay networks
are. Gemini is an application built atop IP/TLS. It's a social network
that sits at the application layer instead of sitting atop the Web's
application layer, that's all.
You can send news or mail messages over AX.25, unencrypted links,
encrypted links, private networks, what have you. You can send
whatever you like in mail messages or news articles: binaries, text,
weird encodings, what have you. Gemini expects IP and TLS
connectivity, and most Gemini users and browsers only want to deal
with Gemtext or plain text. Gemini is an application, not a network.
Parent:
teletext-ish pages? (by <joe@example.invalid> on Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:49:40 -0000 (UTC))