Making plans on leaving more of the http* internet behind me tonight. Looking forward to the shift
2 years ago 路 馃憤 bacardi55, comatoast
I'm curious to hear how this goes for ya, and I mean that in a non-snarky way. I am a Gemini enthusiast, and I'm having fun trying to find use cases for it, but I'll admit, there's no way I could leave http behind.
For example, as a surfer I spend an extreme amount of time looking at buoy reports and weather models. All of this totally _could_ fit into the gemini model (all get requests, no cookies required, all free public data) but being able to quickly look at charts and graphs, and scrub through sequences of images is critical, and not something that can be done via gemini. As a gem enthusiast I'm a little sad I can't work this out. 路 2 years ago
@defunct: most of the sensible web can be translated quite nicely into gemtext anyway. So you might find a translating proxy like Duckling to help close a few more doors. 路 2 years ago
@defunct Ah, I see. I agree for obvious reasons, actually, lol. I think that high barriers to entry are a good way to cull the tourists. I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with browsing clearnet, surface web, normie shit, per se....but the culture of those communities can be absolute shit because of it; I guess it's a bit elitist, but, still. I remeber when 4chan /b/ wasn't as shit as it as is today. 路 2 years ago
@comatoast I don't think I meant corporations, more the need that every little project seems to want to target all of the internet and grow big, and they invite literally everyone, requiring easy and beautiful access to their platform. It seems that even places like github that target programmers (and some writers and bloggers) who know version control, now want to include larger audiences. Sure there's a corp behind that, but what I mean is, github is for software, not everyone needs to be on github. Gemini is for minimalists, not everyone needs to be here. Smaller communities with harder access barriers have advantages, too 路 2 years ago
@Defunct: Indeed, the corperate take over of the web is doing harm to the web. It is, almost a requirement to tap into these markets to get any relivancy, almost. 路 2 years ago
@comatoast I want to narrow down communities. the http tends to target all people with their platform, which makes you anonymous. tildeverse is much smaller for instance 路 2 years ago
What are your plans for vacating it? At this point I only really use the website I run, lol. And a couple of other imageboards. 路 2 years ago