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by zamadatix
1049 days ago
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The idea behind Gemini is that it's useful to have a clean partition where you know the social "crowd" matches a specific type. For someone to use it they've gone and installed dedicated software which intentionally limits itself to what this crowd likes to engage in. This signals they are interested in the same kind of space. The utility of the dedicated software is not in providing some other level of convenience, it's separate strictly so the user "crowd" stays separate. Otherwise I could just register gemini:// as an aliased protocol of HTTP and it'd work in normal browsers or gemini clients all the same. If Chrome supported Gemini tomorrow a significant portion of the user base would stop using it. Of course that's unlikely, Gemini's trust-on-first-use security model is something unlikely to be added net-new to a consumer focused browser. |
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It appears to have achieved this goal to perfection, since most posts in gemini are about ... gemini.