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by nologic01 1046 days ago
> Gemini is a reaction to bloated modern websites

Correction: it is an overreaction to bloated modern websites. Interesting in various ways. Artificial constraints in an era of gratuitous excess can be useful to trigger creativity but my sense is that the territory Gemini revisited is simply too well trodden. Not a particularly fertile ground to seed an alternative universe. Heraclitus said, "You cannot step into the same river twice, for other waters are continually flowing on."

Added thought: The vision of a lean web is more than valid, but it needs to add something new and exciting even while it subtracts a lot of useless bloat.

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Yes, I would like to see something between the web and Gemini where the style is always provided by the browser, like reader mode, and there is no javascipt, but there is a fairly rich set of media like images, video, and sounds.

You really need to easily "interact" with content by replying to posts, chatting, and up-voting, searching, and navigating.