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Before you used Gemini, what did you do elsewhere that you're now using Gemini for instead?
Nov 26 · 3 weeks ago
The World Wide Web.
Not a one-to-one replacement, but I don't really use the Fediverse anymore.
Before, just made the web, until found a hole and run away.
🐑 thezipcreator · Nov 26 at 20:16:
it's hard to say Gemini "replaced" anything; I didn't really used to read blogs and stuff but now I do. Gemini just brought me more things to do on the internet.
🔭 thewanderer · Nov 26 at 22:04:
Looking for something that reminded me of the early internet.
ActivityPub sites like masto and Lemmy. I'd already dropped social media, and was going down privacy holes like privacyguides, and was delighted to find a place like this. I dropped everything else and gemini is 95% of my personal internet usage now, outside of looking up coding guides and q&a forums.
☕️ protoc0l · Nov 27 at 00:42:
@gritty samesies. I even shy away from social networks because meh. but now if I'm not looking up reference materials, I'm just hanging out in geminispace.
I don't really miss much of the internet, because I feel like the internet I grew up with is kinda gone. I've got my NAS, I've got my music. Aside from a few streaming sites for watching television at home with my wife, the internet doesn't really have much to offer me anymore.
Now I think if I could completely airgap myself, I would be in heaven.
👻 darkghost · Nov 27 at 00:55:
I wouldn't say Gemini replaces anything, although I feel more free to engage with it. It feels like the early internet I recall of the late 90s. A bunch of folks who somehow found their way into this digital domain. There was an anonymity that was simultaneously deeply personal. Gemini doesn't have the same sense of wonder at the novelty of doing this all on a previously isolated computer, but it has a similar feeling of a small community. The journey onto Gemini might be interesting to learn, same as those journeys of the early internet pioneers. Mine is boring though. I saw something about it on Slashdot and filed it away. Years later I happened to be messing with opensuse and saw Lagrange and installed it.
🎵 alice-sur-le-nuage · Nov 27 at 13:20:
I gave up on social media a while ago. I enjoyed Mastodon/FeDiverse for a while, until it got too big (at the time of the Twitter take over, a lot of people moved to Mastodon). Now I check bbs daily - which is a social media of sorts. For me the crucial difference is numbers. Social media gets shit when it gets big.