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Oooh I didn’t know about this! Does it have a search engine?
EDIT: oh I see there is! Shoulda clicked through before asking lol
You can use server-side forms to update pages, just like we did before front-end HTML became Flash 2.0.
Here’s a microblog service that’s built on Gemini that uses forms to get data from users. gemini://station.martinrue.com/
I like it. Everyone these days seems to want web pages that are 5MB of dynamically generated junk.
My little website is just static hugo-generated stuff.
Sure, but you don’t need a completely new protocol to speed up websites, learn HTML and CSS and you can easily create fast pages for anyone to look at, not just those with a highly specific client.
People tend to really suck at limiting themselves. If you’re wandering around in gemini space you’re not going to run into pages with lots of ad banners, trackers and other monetization BS. You pretty much can’t. On the web, you can run into simple fast pages but it’s getting less and less the norm. And the lack of easy ways to monetize means it’s unattractive to corporations, which helps avoid creeping enshittification.
Gemini is light, simple, and easy to parse. It’s just lightly marked up text. Compare the size of Lagrange with the size of Chrome or Firefox. And nobody is forcing you to use it. 🙂
It’s fine, I use Lagrange to read it sometimes, and there’s a few gemlogs I follow. But it’s in a weird space of “almost HTML, so why not just do HTML?”
Gopher still works fine, and has more clients (I still use Lynx). I like the clean separation of menus (even if you use a lot of i info lines) and documents. There’s a bunch of gopher holes still out here. I haven’t updated mine in a couple years, but when/if I move it over to a new server I will, as kind of a back-channel to the site & blog.
I was an early adopter of Gemini and even hosted some stuff on there years ago, but ultimately I don’t see a point when things like gopher exist and Gemini is a wasteland when it comes to interesting stuff to browse. Though admittedly the concept of an encrypted gopher protocol is pretty nice to me. I feel a lot more of the old internet feeling on there, i.e everyone else using it is a like-minded hobbyist with no corporate overlords. But even then things like activitypub that we are using right now also have that so idk.
