[flohofwoe]

Disclaimer: I haven't (consciously) heard of this Gemini thing before, but:

> I'm guaranteed to not be flooded with ads, ...

I guarantee this will only be true until it becomes popular enough to be a juicy target for the more - uhm - "business-oriented" people, it's not because of a restricted feature set.

Creating a technology which is intentionally uninteresting to business is an interesting angle of course which I can get behind ;)

[southerntofu]

Now tell the business people you can't display images and can't tell apart bots from "real people" on Gemini. They'll much prefer to keep their ads on the web. Being uninteresting to business is indeed a feature not a bug, but i agree with much of the author's criticism of gemini reinventing a square wheel: it's fun but a modern web subset would probably be easier to learn for many people while keeping backwards-compat with the rest of the world.

[shuntress]

> Now tell the business people you can't display images and can't tell apart bots from "real people" on Gemini. They'll much prefer to keep their ads on the web.

100% not true. They will simply pay less per impression for their ascii art ads.

[dopidopHN]

As much as I trust your garanties, you should have a look at Gemini capsules and the current state of the content.

I wish best of luck for ads to be serve and viewed at scale in there