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The web is partly broken due to the sheer expanse of it. The author of the article alludes to how they enjoys looking at the aggregator, and notes they can alwa
by ehnto 6y ago
The web is partly broken due to the sheer expanse of it. The author of the article alludes to how they enjoys looking at the aggregator, and notes they can always find something interesting. If Gemini ever became as popular as the web, that would stop being true.
So the selling point of Gemini is that by staying rudimentary, it can limit it's appeal, and subsequently stay unpopular enough to be more like "The Old Web". I think that's worth noting, because you could get trapped into thinking this is a technology problem, but it's really a people problem.
- baryphonic 6y ago> If Gemini ever became as popular as the web, that would stop being true. Your implication may be true, but Gemini will never become as popular as the web (well unless the web becomes extremely unpopular at the expense of something else besides Gemini). My wife would see "no images" and that would be the beginning and end of using Gemini for her.
- dancek 6y agoYou have a very good point. However, Gemini does not exist in a vacuum. The web will be there. There will be social media platforms, multimedia, awesome webapps and all that. And Gemini is just text. When you have the choice between easily consumable infinite multimedia and just text, you only pick the latter when you really care about the quality of text content. It's not sexy so all the spammers, content marketers and ego boosters have nothing to gain on Gemini. And so there can be this esoteric little corner of the internet, with down-to-earth text content written by ordinary people.