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by FrozenVoid 1608 days ago
What author hints at is a view of Gemini community as ideologically monolithic Internet Amish, refusing technology and standards because they're opposed to modern state of things: the opposing(author) view is monoculture of Hypertext Web subjugating all protocols will eventually dominate due user-friendly and flexible nature of web stacks. Its obvious Gemini isn't a tech solution but a rebellion against corporate web dominance that intentionally cripples web experience for greater user control, but author tries to compare it with familiar web sub-formats that are characteristics of content: Gemini isn't about content, its a form of interaction that prescribes certain limits that Internet Amish will feel comfortable with, without introducing too much overhead(like Tor and I2P).
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The problem with analogies is that they are contextual.