I’m just trying to wrap my brain around what the use case for this is. I see the author referencing that it would be good for text only things such as poetry and recipes, but why would it be -better enough- for those things that users will use it over (or in conjunction with) http? What’s going to bring users over to Gemini aside from curiousity? There’s nothing that says a web page can’t be straightforward text, and switching to a new protocol that requires an entirely different browser is only reducing your potential audience.
I want to grok the why of this, but I feel like I’m missing some key bit of information.
If you look around on Mastodon/Pleroma you will some several die-hard Gopher users. Gopher servers run by default on port 71, and not port 80, and most “modern” browsers will not support Gopher, or only with an add-on. Gemini is like Gopher with some additions. I am interested in developments that move away from the current ad- and tracking- and data brokers driven web.
