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> Finally, I think that gemini together with small companion protocols and file formats (e.g. amb[1], uxntal/subleq) are fully compatible with permacomputing co
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
> Finally, I think that gemini together with small companion protocols and file formats (e.g. amb[1], uxntal/subleq) are fully compatible with permacomputing concepts and this, in my naive but very tired view of the current state of the internet, is enough to understand what is good and what is bad.
In practice, where is any of this? Where's the screen reader support? How many blind and deaf people are using Gemini? This is like building a bike lane in a truck parking lot; it makes me doubt anyone will use it and makes me think that it's air cover for the truck parking lot folks to make their parking lot seem more accessible than it actually is.
What is "permacomputing"? It's not listed in any of the goals of the Gemini project. And why do we need amb or uxntal/subleq architectures? Is there a rational chain of thought here that justifies these ideas which doesn't depend on moral philosophy?
(Note that that's my other problem with Gemini. There's a lot of talk of good, evil, producers, consumers, publishers, and all, but the terms are poorly defined and the motivations hand-wavily justified. None of the actual motivational documents regarding the protocol bring these up either, they are just brought up in discussion _around_ Gemini, which is frustrating because it feels like there's a mismatch between the advertised uses of Gemini (and why a user would care) and the concerns of actual Gemini users.)