Way back in the 90s I discovered gopher. It was magical, like some difficult to navigate, decaying place hidden from a web going corporate even back then. The problem I had with it was I couldn’t find anything of use.
Now, looking at gemini, I get the same vibe. It has the same magical promise.
What do you use gemini for? For information or just browsing around? Do you want to create a blog or other content? Why in gemini and not on the web?
Because the web sucks. Web technologies are in general horrible to use, build with, etc. Drew DeVault has written a lot of posts about this that I like, i.e. The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers and Web browsers need to stop.
I myself plan on writing my own post on this too. But for now, like I said: because the web sucks. And because the way Gemini is designed, so much of the garbage that makes the web so suck-y is impossible.
There is plenty to hate about modern web-browsers, but I think these articles miss a big part of the picture. While there have been some setbacks (FirefoxOS, WebOS, ChromeOS to some extend) web-browsers are a transitional technology to a web-based OS.
A modern browser is not anymore complex than a modern OS and in many, many ways running javascript webapps in a browser on Windows is superior to running running similar non-trustworthy software on Windows itself.
This is easy to forget for Linux diehards like myself, but the majority is using Windows and are not going to switch to Linux. And if they would switch, a lot of the dysfunctonalities of the Windows ecosystem would probably be replicated on Linux. Web-based OS on the other hand at least try a different approach to that problem.
I dig it, like an automatic sandbox