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Beyond the Web: Gopher, Gemini, and the Rise of the Small Internet
- GoOnThenDoTell 6y agoThe sheer lack of ads on Gemini when reading anything is really nice
- zoobab 6y agoSince day1 HTML was abused to track slaves from the master servers.
- RodgerTheGreat 6y agoNormally, linking a paywalled article would undermine the value of the link. In this case it seems like a perfect illustration of what makes Gemini- or in general, non-profit-oriented areas of the internet- appealing.
- leephillips 6y agoHa, interesting point. I submitted it in part because I suspect that many HN readers already have a subscription. And it becomes free after a while (when the following issue comes out?), as well.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> They feel that web technology does too much, and that since it makes various forms of abuse too easy, no lasting reform is possible. If Google adjusted their ranking algorithms to severely penalise bloated sites, web bloat would surely improve.