I quite like Gemini, but it's very difficult to communicate to anyone in my life why I like it. It's like here's a certain level of fed-up you've got to reach, and you've also got to be fairly technical, for this sort of thing to appeal. But wow, I really like Gemini. I'd be quite happy if I never had to use the web again, frankly.
3 years ago 路 馃憤 aka_dude, defunct, skyjake, digbat, marginalia, thatsredadcted, axeflayer, iam, wim
A graphic novel I was reading today summed it up nicely for me: 'All people these days are consumers or destroyers ... we used to have creators to."
The main web seems to be where the crowds argue and fight. The small web is one place where you can find multi-talented people with their eccentric interests, offering advice and trying to help each other out. The nich-ness of it attracts a certain sort of person methinks. 路 3 years ago
@lykso Yeah... My crusade is to demonstrate that it isn't the web that sucks, but websites. You can have your ping time be the biggest contributing delay to a page load, you can have nice looking, clean, distraction-free interfaces. Dunno, maybe what I'm building is TempleOS for the web, but at least that guy built something which is more most of than his detractors ever did :P 路 3 years ago
good luck! 路 3 years ago
@defunct Well, now you've gone and tempted me to try building an ecommerce gemsite. :p
@marginalia You too? :D
Okay, mine were CLI frontends rather than lightweight browser frontends, but still... 路 3 years ago
Remember, first rule of Gemini is "Do not talk about gemini". More seriously, it's just simple and practical. The web is still useful, maybe even more useful when paired with Gemini - e.g. I'd bet the quality of HTTP links found in Geminispace is higher than those typically found on Facetagrams. 路 3 years ago
Even before I found gemini, I've been building private light-weight front-ends for the HTTP-spaces I found worthwhile. A few niche subreddits I value, a podcast aggregator, the weather. It's all basically pulling XML feeds or REST APIs and generating static HTML pages without javascript and with a very quiet stylesheet. It accomplishes a lot of the same effects that the gemini-restrictions do. Gemini fits like a glove within that, my private internet ecosystem. 路 3 years ago
I think the very niche appeal of Gemini is part of the draw for me. Everybody on here is coming from a vaguely similar place of fed up, as you said, which breeds a nice sense of community! 路 3 years ago
same but I don't see a web shop working well here. videos might, if there's a burden on the video player. or if a browser starts to implement sort of a duo screen. Gemini plus a second screen to pretender all urls in specific tools. but all in all I agree, it removes most of the things that shouldn't be in a browser to start with 馃槀 路 3 years ago