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From a user perspective, which websites do you think would be improved by being served via Gemini instead of HTTP, and why?
News websites is a pretty good example I think, given that it'd give users direct access to key content without having to deal with ads and popups.
Nov 30 · 2 weeks ago
👻 darkghost · Dec 01 at 00:25:
Any information that favors text. Recipes, logs, reference, how-to's, news, short fiction, weather reports, stocks, I'm sure some I'm forgetting. It isn't good for maps, media, picture galleries, games (besides text based games), charts, in-browser applications, real time chat, and of course, annoying advertising.
💀 requiem · Dec 01 at 00:38:
News, possibly long form essay content, blogs, and microblogs.
Wildcard take possibly but I could see potential in hosting podcasts.
Actually I wouldn’t mind seeing video streaming content either. Anything is an improvement over what video sharing has become. A YT frontend as minimalistic as Piped would be pretty sweet.
💀 requiem · Dec 01 at 00:41:
Oh and reference libraries for things. Like IRL library catalogues to programming language documentation.
Yesterday, all of a sudden I remembered twenty-odd years ago, when I discovered guitar tabs. Years later, some of the results you'd get from googling for tabs were as effed up as the rest of the web...
Not sure how it's going nowadays, but... yeah, music tabs could work fantastically over Gemini.
There was also something called "abc notation" that would work. But I don't even remember how that worked.
🦂 zzo38 · Dec 07 at 23:15:
I mostly agree with @darkghost. However, I think that even some text-based games would better work with others than Gemini, such as interactive protocols such as Telnet and SSH. A lot of things would be better served with protocols other than HTTP and file formats other than HTML; in some cases Gemini would be good but other times it isn't good.