It occurs to me that gemtext is the markup language we could have used fifteen years ago, when wikis were poised to become the next big thing: an ubiquitous kind of social network that everyone used by default. And they missed that boat in no small part due to being utterly inaccessible.
Also, can't help but notice that in Geminispace people have conversations by reading each other's capsules and replying on their own. It's almost as if comment boxes were never really needed, let alone WebMentions or publish-subscribe systems. The web just allowed us to vastly overextend.
Gemlog.blue strikes me as complementary to this place: a blog farm to Flounder's personal wikis. Wish they'd also make journals available over the web as well as Gemini, as it can lure more people over this early on (and frankly, I find gemtext useful outside of Gemini as well). But that's nitpicking.
There's no technical reason why corporations can't come to gemspace. Just get a server going and start publishing advertorials peppered with ads. Even a newsletter subscription form is perfectly feasible. It's just that ads would have to be plain text and forms couldn't pop up in your face. And corporations will never go for it because, frankly, it would lay bare just how little they have to say. Too bad, so sad. But also ironic.
Conversely: dear journalists and scientists, this is a hint. Take it.
Last updated: 10 September 2020