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Why does Gemini need to exist?
by airstrike 6y ago
Why does Gemini need to exist?
- boring_twenties 6y agoI suppose it doesn't, but some people want it to exist, and so it does.
- airstrike 6y agoThanks. I was really asking an honest question, so appreciate you replying. I do think ideas need a compelling reason to exist in order to be successful, but then again the people behind Gemini may not have my definition of "success" as one of their stated goals.
- boring_twenties 6y agoIt's perfectly valid to just want to serve a limited niche, rather than take over the whole world. OpenBSD might be another example of such a project.
- mPReDiToR 6y agoBecause advertising broke http. You need more power in your computer to read a recipe for Yorkshire Puddings than you do to run a spaceship to Mars. Taking out a lot of tracking and malware, just serving content, goes back to the 90's Interwebs. Some of us would very much appreciate that.
- airstrike 6y agoI would really appreciate that, but I wonder if the right incentives are there to support its broad adoption. Also wonder if the easiest way to fix online advertising is indeed to replace HTTP altogether.
- snvzz 6y agoIt doesn't. It literally provides no value over Gopher. And it is broken by design; By not providing a length field in the response, it does force complexity into clients. Of course, for political reasons[0], protocol can't be extended (refer to 2.12), and while it's still new and could be made sane, it won't; The authors do not want outside input. [0]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html