It's mostly just a social club oriented around a protocol and a format. Initially there was talk about distributing alternative formats (like HTML), and the pos

It's mostly just a social club oriented around a protocol and a format. Initially there was talk about distributing alternative formats (like HTML), and the possibilities of screen readers, but these days it's mostly Gemtext and some syndication/feed formats (e.g. RSS/Atom). In theory you can render Gemtext however you like; in practice the community favors ASCII/figlet art content and spartan text, and doesn't care (positively or negatively) about other ways to view content. The community is mostly technical folks with socialist or anarcho-socialist views. The content is what you'd expect from a webring of blog posters with those views/preferences. It's a pretty specific community, but if you like that stuff you'll probably fit right in.