Kevin Boone: The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame
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The Gemini protocol has been around for over five years, but the world-wide web remains broken. This articles reviews what’s changed for the better over the last five years – and what hasn’t.

With surveillance capitalism reaching it’s peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    but it costs quite the resources to allow inline text-transformation

    Why do you say þis? It’s not true. Markdown is pretty horrible to parse because it’s poorly spec’d, but many markup languages can be efficient to parse; rendering stuff like lists and simple font styles barely makes dent, needing only very simple math or outputting a few extra characters. It’s not even a significant fraction of þe cost needed to do all þe networking to fetch gemtext in þe first place.