<story><title>Gemini&apos;s &quot;uselessness&quot; is its killer feature</title><url>https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squiggleblaz</author><text>I am not convinced. Gemini is useless, and the Web is tracked, because Gemini is a platform for distributing data&amp;#x2F;documents, and the Web has become a platform for distributing random executable code.&lt;p&gt;If Gemini documents could support static HTML and CSS (i.e. without anything like SCRIPT elements or cookies), it would be more useful to the people who it is intended to benefit - you could port Wikipedia or distribute journal articles - without being a tracker haven. I don&amp;#x27;t hate the modern web because I can read the results of a scientific study that mentions its statistics in tabular form. I hate the modern web because the first thing I have to do is sign away my right to be treated like a customer in business, a curious child in a library or a guest at a friends house, and instead must agree to involuntarily yield wealth for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>&amp;gt; I am not convinced.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t think that it even makes any sense to convince anyone. There are people who like Gemini and for them it&amp;#x27;s good enough, the rest will never use it. Both camps have excellent arguments and I see no point of arguing here. It&amp;#x27;s like Vim vs Emacs wars in the old days, as if people couldn&amp;#x27;t use their $EDITOR of choice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gemini&apos;s &quot;uselessness&quot; is its killer feature</title><url>https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squiggleblaz</author><text>I am not convinced. Gemini is useless, and the Web is tracked, because Gemini is a platform for distributing data&amp;#x2F;documents, and the Web has become a platform for distributing random executable code.&lt;p&gt;If Gemini documents could support static HTML and CSS (i.e. without anything like SCRIPT elements or cookies), it would be more useful to the people who it is intended to benefit - you could port Wikipedia or distribute journal articles - without being a tracker haven. I don&amp;#x27;t hate the modern web because I can read the results of a scientific study that mentions its statistics in tabular form. I hate the modern web because the first thing I have to do is sign away my right to be treated like a customer in business, a curious child in a library or a guest at a friends house, and instead must agree to involuntarily yield wealth for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minitech</author><text>A client for HTML and CSS is much more complicated to implement than a client for Gemini and its rich text format. But you can serve HTML pages over Gemini either way.</text></comment>