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If it was built on HTTP, there's a risk of a slippery slope type situation.

• Jtsummers 5y ago
  It's not prevented by being its own protocol, only delayed. HTTP was pretty simple at the start, then it got popular and more features got added to satisfy more users. There is no law of nature or humans which prevents Gemini from being hijacked by others later if it becomes popular enough. And if it stays niche, then the current (developer-heavy) community can keep it as simple as they want.
• tlamponi 5y ago
  How so? It's not like the `application/json` content type suffered from it, why should a `text/gemini`?