| > These standards led us to everything that has ruined the old web That’s the entire contention, though. I don’t think the standards really had anything to do with it. The only thing that even comes close is maybe DNS, since it ties web pages to specific organizations, so a page only continues to exist as long as an unbroken chain of custody keeps it there. But Gemini doesn’t even address that (ask IPFS and FreeNet how it’s going). But mostly, browser vendors created the standards. And most of the current browser vendors became dominant browser vendors by using some other business to gain an edge in the market: Google used their ad business, sure, but before them it was Microsoft using their operating system to push their browser on people, and they largely just ignored the standards. > entire thing has to be done in entirely different way where there is no possibility of repeating history But does Gemini actually do that? What stops your client from making ad-hoc extensions to gemtext? No amount of writing, or lack thereof, can stop evil Gemini browser vendors from just ignoring what the text says. You need something else to make sure that power players don’t just ignore the rules you set out. |