Found a reply to my "where's the energy" post via COSMOS: gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202201/20220111-acclimating-new-gemini-users.gmi
First of all, I'm not really lamenting the lack of speed. Being new and obscure, Gemini is going to be slow. I get that. If I'm lamenting anything, is a lack of certain sort of ambition. At least it's still growing, but it seems like more is possible.
Second, let's not undersell Gemini. It can be way more than slow-paced document retrieval. It's a very promising protocol for a whole swath of new and replacement community infrastructure. That big vision of a Gemini that goes 100x or more beyond Gopher is worth focus, and if missing, lamentation.
2 years ago
gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202201/20220111-acclimating-new-gemini-users.gmi
@krixano lol nice. You are right. Gemini is very fast. · 2 years ago
I actually don't think Gemini is that slow, and it's certainly not as slow as things like the WWW. Gemini's main document format (gemtext) is basically pure text without source-code, which means it will usually be smaller in file size than most things on the web. The slow part of gemini would be TLS and server response times from slow server hardware or slow server software, and has almost nothing to do with the actual protocol or documents themselves. In which case, the main fix would just be to get better server hardware for the people that own servers and feel that they need this added speed. · 2 years ago
Well, I’m new to the whole thing, but I’m getting the impression that many of the current users are attracted to gemini exactly because it’s not ambitious and does not try to replace the entire WWW with something just as big and unmanageable. 😉 · 2 years ago
Who's vision is this? Yours? Go ahead and make some amazing stuff if that's what you want to see. There isn't any one vision for gemini. We all have our own version of what we like about it and what we want to come from it. You'd have to ask Solderpunk but I don't get the feeling that he ever yearned for gemini to become a big popular protocol that replaces lots of things. I happen to think gemini is doing just fine and I have been enjoying it long before now and plan to continue enjoying as it organically evolves. · 2 years ago