"skyjake had a suggestion:
I’ve been wondering how inextricably linked Gemtext is to Geminispace. Sure, the protocol can serve any other type of content as well, but does it make sense to serve pages in a format that virtually no client supports?
Really disagree with the idea to put Markdown out there.
It’s even harder to parse and emit correctly than XML."
The Gemini FAQ (gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) got this to say about Markdown (and I agree with it):