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by nicolaslem 1253 days ago
> Gemini could have a really cool niche as a protocol which supports a lot of weird and wonderful systems.

To give an example, thanks to its simplicity the IRC protocol was used for a lot of weird and creative things besides chatting. On the top of my head: bootstrapping P2P networks, controlling botnets or as a generic pubsub broker.