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I've tried to get into Gopher and Gemini several times but I just couldn't for the life of me find anything I actually wanted to read.
by nanna 3y ago
I've tried to get into Gopher and Gemini several times but I just couldn't for the life of me find anything I actually wanted to read.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago(This is kind of off topic for the post but) yeah, I do think gopher/gemini suffer in terms of discoverability; perhaps they would benefit from search engines? Or maybe just going old school with web rings and link directories.
- eternityforest 3y agoI think the problem with Gemini is that it attracts people who want to talk about tech, thus making it just like the rest of the stuff we scroll all day. The tech is not the main problem with the modern Internet I don't think. Endless scrolling sucks and old forums were amazing, but the bigger problem is we scroll all day, instead of doing stuff worth writing about, so all the content is just a reflection of more stuff on the screen, like a hall of screen mirrors. Neocities is a much cooler model IMHO for old school web stuff.