Indeed, one could at least argue that gopher was a simpler protocol, gemini makes short work of that, too, and leaves it to be only an incompatible and less cap

Indeed, one could at least argue that gopher was a simpler protocol, gemini makes short work of that, too, and leaves it to be only an incompatible and less capable https protocol with some other convention for the markup. I entirely agree that there's no good reason not to use HTTP[s] as a transport for textual information, which is kinda what it's made to do anyway.. I'd argue against a gemini content-type, I'd get as far away from the association with gemini as possible. text/feather is a better content-type, it makes it clear that it's text, with a feather-light structure imposed on it.. That structure should probably be very little more than support for line breaks and hyperlinks.