I think you misunderstand my argument, and actually are reinforcing it with this comment. If I take effort to go and visit a park then I get some kind of value

I think you misunderstand my argument, and actually are reinforcing it with this comment. If I take effort to go and visit a park then I get some kind of value from it. I get to relax in nature, see some pretty trees, have a space to play on a playground, etc. Those uses are evident even if I personally prefer concrete and steel, have pollen allergies or don't have kids. This project sounds more like a single tree on a tiny island. You can go and sit under it, but you need to swim out to the island. It has no low branches, so you can't do anything except sit under it. It's scraggly, so it doesn't provide any shade, so sitting under it isn't very pleasant in the hot sun. Oh, and no boats are allowed on the lake, so you have to swim the half-mile each way. It's the opposite of your story, the only possible reason someone could have in visiting the island is to log the tree, or just to say they've been there. And my argument is more about the practicality. Why am I going to go from writing my blog about how fluffy alpacas are on the HT(TP|ML) web to writing it on Gemini? What do I get for my effort and for the restrictions that are now placed on my writing? I could appreciate a text file on my local disk about as much as a gemtext page because nobody will see it. Network effects are really real. Using Gemini is building an enormous mountain, and the only reason to climb it is "because it's there".