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Why?

What problem does this solve over simple HTML/CSS pages?

Outside of a very specific niche I can’t see how anyone would choose this over normal HTML and HTTP/HTTPS, you’d need to run a new Gemini specific server to host Gemini specific files, created by Gemini specific softwares or Gemini specific developers, files that can only be read with a Gemini specific client.

This won’t happen outside systems with highly specialized requirenments.

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The advantage is that it’s an obligate web 1.0 (-ish) experience. You aren’t clicking a link on a Gemini site that is going to take you anywhere crazy. There’s no tracking pixels and embedded content to get in the way.

It’s possible to attempt this by just following web 1.0 standards on your w3 site, and only linking to sites that do the same, and so on, but eventually there’s going to be a like button or an embedded video or something that ruins the experience. The web is messy.

Smaller spaces with constraints can be a lot of fun. Working within those constraints can breed innovation.

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Sure, but untill web browsers support the protocol natively, it will never take off

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5 points

This completely misses the point.

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