It succeeds in being so simple that it's useless to 99% of people, which limits its growth and eventual co-opting by capitalism and mainstream culture, and Eter

It succeeds in being so simple that it's useless to 99% of people, which limits its growth and eventual co-opting by capitalism and mainstream culture, and Eternal September. Not everything has to be for everyone. Gemini is only for a very specific kind of deeply aescetic technological misanthrope that wants basic plaintext with links (basically Gopher++) and finds little else to be useful.