| I think people just want something to rant about. Gemini folks maintain Gemini for themselves using their own hardware and their own time, so I think they can do whatever they think its best for them. If they want to strip HTTP and remove all cool features it has, it's their problem, not ours. If they want to treat content as text only, again, it's their problem, not ours. If they want to publish their content as Gemini only, it's their content, not ours. If they want to bikeshedding about internet protocols, it's their time, not ours. Now, about Gemini folks being elitists and intentionally excluding people with their protocol, take a minute to think about what tech companies are doing. Tech companies and many other companies that rely heavily on tech are making our society dependent more and more on online services, selling all kind of products and services that need an internet connection to work, even for basic features. In a world where half of population does not have internet connection, and geek folks feel excluded by a protocol just because they don't like it, how can we name what tech companies are doing, if it is not elitism and exclusion? |
It doesn't get any more "exclusionary" than that.