I know #GeminiProtocol or #SpartanProtocol all are far from perfect (and will be hard to fix as they have no version *by design to prevent additions*). Still I believe they are the things that has taken off most and really means something symbolically about a separate non-commercial web.
Maybe it’ll all be rewritten with totally different protocols and content converted (it’s mostly markdown-like) but it’s still good to use & promote the version we have now.
With its slowly growing content I see an opportunity for #GeminiProtocol to become a standard to keep using old machines that otherwise would become e-waste.
Most of the web is painful to unusable today if you have a PC that’s one decade old or more. Yet the majority of actually useful information is still text with a few included documents or images. Gemini will always be useable on E-readers when we know the web content may sometimes be readable but mostly not.
@santiago
I'm browsing Gemini and hosting my capsule on machines that are way over a decade old! In fact, web is one of the few things making these machines obsolete, probably the primary one. If you cross the web out — there are still lots of uses for old computers.
And yes, we all know the limitations of Gemini, there are things that you would never be able to do with it.
@santiago
A device with eink-like display sounds perfect for the job, if the display would be responsive enough to be usable with regular GUIs we have today, I'm definitely getting myself one.
@m0xee The M5 Paper wouldn’t be very responsive. It’s just an ESP32 and the screen refresh isn’t so fast. I still need to take time to actually write code for it but I fear while it’s perfect (but small) for reading it may feel sluggish when loading content and tapping links. Like a Kindle does.
There are things like the Boox Ultra Tab that run Android apps and therefore Lagrange I guess. Not cheap and I would really prefer something with only open software.
@santiago
Even things that would probably have to do in one way or the other if commercial or just more general public interest for it arises, but for people like me — who prefer mostly text content and who like to keep the content and the representation of it separate and have to use extensions, CSS hacks and reader mode to bring the web closer to it, Gemini is perfect!