[ReactiveJelly]

> people just need to actually make sites like that.

This is the problem I see with initiatives like Gopher and Gemini.

The people causing the problems with the web are not the people who will listen to these initiatives.

They are banks, advertisers, FAANG, everyone who is fine making money off the standard Chrome-IE-Edge crowd and barely even care about Firefox support.

Both Gemini support and a sane subset of HTTP / HTML require the same level of dedication that I could bring, but no commercial site will. Well, to be blunt, minimal HTTP / HTML is a lot easier. I can keep my same hyper backend, Firefox client, Nginx for TLS termination, curl and libcurl and pycurl, lots of tools that will only work on HTTP.

Plus, minimal HTTP 1.1 is not that hard to implement, so I think they're mostly attacking the wrong part of the stack while also cutting out useful performance features like QUIC or pipelining or caching.