Way back in the 90s I discovered gopher. It was magical, like some difficult to navigate, decaying place hidden from a web going corporate even back then. The problem I had with it was I couldn’t find anything of use.

Now, looking at gemini, I get the same vibe. It has the same magical promise.

What do you use gemini for? For information or just browsing around? Do you want to create a blog or other content? Why in gemini and not on the web?

  • someone@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Gemini appeals to me because; -It’s follows the unix philosophy. Gemini only serves gemini capsules, stuff like images, videos, music / podcasts, downloads and social media is handled by other protocols and / or programs.

    • It’s lightweight. Great for minimal / low power computing

    • I can browse it comfortably without an adblocker and some userscripts or tons of extensions.

    • It’s fast.

    • It’s easy to implement. You have way more to choose from as far as gemini browsers and servers go because of that.

    Now I’m not one of those people who hate web 2.0, infact I actually love it. The thing is web of today is an app delivery protocol not a document delivering protocol. And it delivers apps pretty well, however for a minimal browsing experience gopher and gemini are the way to go.