Some people in and around the various circumlunar.space watering holes might remember that a couple years ago, I had one of those " what do you mean gopher has no notion of [insert feature I can't imagine not existing] ? " moments.
That was about links.
Yes, links. Not references.
2 years later I still don't understand how or why it's not part of the spec. Probably something to do with the first implementation being written on the back of a pizza box to appease librarians, not meant to be used by anything that could even remotely be defined as an actual human being.
"Hey we actually do have a copy of that file we're referencing, why not just add some tag to automagically snarglebop its path into something the client could follow ?"
Anyway.
Links are a thing in gemini. That's great.
All this time we would have wasted arguing back and forth about references vs links, or piping files through hashing functions to get some identifier back and then uploading that to some kind of database and then adding a scheme interpreter to the clients... is now being wasted talking about comments, emojis, I_swear_these_are_totally_not_cookies_just_certificates, clients potentially having their own incompatible supersets of incompatible supersets, all in a mailing list so big that it dwarfs the cypherpunk archive, and in which half of the people are top posting like goddamn animals.
All this to say that I liked hackernews a lot more when it was mostly make believe revolution pseudo-libertatian crap about shitcoins, ipfs and masheen luhrneeng.