| > you can easily write Gemini pages in a text editor, without worrying about HTML, WYSIWYG or other markup formats. text/gemini is a markup format by itself, and I do not think that it is any more readable/editable compared to say markdown. > You can write your own server or client in a couple days, from scratch, without using libraries or worrying about corner cases. Good luck implementing TLS from scratch. If we ignore TLS this argument still does not make a lot of sense, I made a toy http server years back within a few hours. > links from modern web sites (causing annoyed users who think your site is broken) This line of argument seems elitistic to me, as in "we do not want the common non-technical folk to start using it". > or invasions by thousands upon thousands of 4chan trolls or whatever Yet one of the most popular sites on gemini is a BBS by kiwifarms (which includes 4channers). The metaphor (thanks for explaining it by the way) seems to make the incorrect assumption that gemini is a simpler protocol compared to a subset of http that gemini could have used instead. |