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Re: "Is Gemini Too Earnest?"

In: u/bluesman

I am largely kidding...

Gemtext is clearly a part of the overall Gemini spec. But if not mistaken, I still see issues coming up with how to interpret the protocol spec. And I think the initial spec had to be reworked to make more sense, right?

Again, Gemini is pretty much all the Internet I use, and I am a proponent.

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Mar 12 ยท 8 weeks ago

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๐Ÿ›ธ bluesman [OP] ยท Mar 12 at 20:07:

I've been largely kidding this whole time. Both protocols are equally hilarious (at times).

๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear ยท Mar 13 at 08:19:

Writing a watertight specification is difficult, unless you resort to some kind of mathematical formulation, and then nobody else will understand it.

Because the developer base for Gemini stuff is so small, I do worry that we'll end up with a kind of de-facto spec, that's mostly defined by the behaviour of existing code. I'm not saying that's happening, only that it could.

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๐Ÿ›ธ bluesman

Is Gemini Too Earnest? โ€” I've been spending a lot of time testing in gopherspace and it pains me to say it but I think Gopher may have Gemini beat when it comes to comedy. [gopher link] Bitreich Cookbook [gopher link] Dad Joke [gopher link] Do I Have Internet? I've worked with both protocols and in my professional opinion, there's no technical reason Gemini needs to be so earnest. (TLS can be a pain but this is ridiculous). Don't even get me started on Nex.

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