> It will never grow beyond niche because it's too simple to be useful to the mainstream. Hell, it's too simple to be useful to most of Hacker News Different p

> It will never grow beyond niche because it's too simple to be useful to the mainstream. Hell, it's too simple to be useful to most of Hacker News Different protocols, file formats, programming languages, etc can be useful for different things. If you are only writing such text that is just a simple text rather than all of the fancy stuff like HTML, CSS, etc, then it will work very well OK. Of course, many people (including myself) do have criticisms, e.g. some people dislike mandatory TLS. (That is (one reason) why I made up my own (which also has many other differences from Gemini (and from WWW)), but that doesn't mean that Gemini cannot be used.) Note that simple explanations are possible, e.g: Use TLS with port 1965; send the full URL and then carriage return and line feed. (In this case, the URL is "gemini://geminiprotocol.net/")