[anthk]

Narcissism, no. Gopher sucks when you can't display it properly in the 99% of the phones out there. Gemini it's like gopher on features plus TLS and not bound to a DEC terminal. And I say this by daily using OpenBSD in a netbook with xterm/tmux as the main interface.

On TLS, you can get an RPI far cheaper than a second hand 486 machine back in the day in 2001. Starting from a Pentium MMX (better a Pentium II) you can TLS just fine. Heck, even an Amiga with a 68030 can do TLS with a bit of ptience (few seconds on handshake/deal).

And any competent hoster would provide both services for its site, as lots of Gemini users do, not leaving anyone behind.

For instance, gopher://midnight.pub and gemini://midnight.pub