I've been thinking the same thing for years -- thank you for saying it. I agree completely. Another pro is that no encryption means super low power microcontro

I've been thinking the same thing for years -- thank you for saying it. I agree completely. Another pro is that no encryption means super low power microcontrollers and retrocomputers can browse freely. The system req's go down by orders of magnitude. I think enforcing TLS in the Gemini protocol was a huge mistake; there are so many retrocomputing enthusiasts that would love to browse Geminispace on their Amigas and 486s -- it might actually have been a significant part of the userbase -- but they're locked out because their CPUs simply cannot reasonably handle modern TLS.