"Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online collection of written documents which can link to other written documents.
The main difference is that Gemini approaches this task with a strong philosophy of "keep it simple" and "less is enough". This allows Gemini to simply sidestep, rather than try and probably fail to solve, many of the problems plaguing the modern web, which just seem to get worse and worse no matter how many browser add-ons or well meaning regulations get thrown at them.
Gemini might be of interest to you if you:
* Value your privacy and are opposed to the web's ubiquitous tracking of users
* Value your attention and your time and want to read with deep focus, free from distractions
* Are sick and tired of nagging newsletter subscription pop-ups,
obnoxious adverts, autoplaying videos that chase you as you scroll and other misfeatures of the modern web
* Live somewhere with slow internet, can't afford fast internet, or live off-grid and need to conserve precious battery power and minimise expensive satellite data use
* Are a hobbyist programmer with a "do it yourself" attitude who enjoys building their own tools and getting real use out of them every day
If multiple points above apply to you and you've been finding the web an increasingly unpleasant place for several years, Gemini might feel like a real breath of fresh air, even an oasis - but it's not necessarily for everybody. In order to make sure that Gemini remains a simple, lightweight technology which respects its users' privacy and autonomy not just now but into the future, the feature set has been deliberately kept quite minimal.
It's definitely not too minimal to be useful, but it certainly can't do everything you might be used to, and maybe it's missing something that's a deal-breaker for you.
Keep an open mind, give it a try, and see how you feel.
Plenty of people have been surprised at how quickly they stop missing things they thought they couldn't live without!"
Download "Lagrange" Gopher/Gemini-Browser:
gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
Read more:
gopher://geminiprotocol.net:70/0/docs/faq.txt
#Gemini #Gopher #SmallNet #DistractionFree #Privacy
"The web is a mess, bloated with data-gathering trackers, predatory UX, massive resource loads, and it is absorbing everything it touches.
The Small Internet is a counter-cultural movement to wrangle things back under control via minimalism, hands-on participation, and good old fashioned conversation.
At its heart are technologies like the venerable Gopher protocol or the new Gemini protocol offering a refuge and a place to dream of a better future."
Video:
"2022 - Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet" - James Tomasino
media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-83-rocking-the-web-bloat-modern-gopher-gemini-and-the-small-internet
#Web #Internet #BloatedWeb #Gopher #Gemini #SmallWeb #SmallNet #BetterFuture
"THE WEB VS GOPHER
The title of this piece is a farce. That battle was lost decades ago. The web little notes nor cares that gopher still exists. It was finished once it became apparent that gopher couldn't be monetized (or weaponized). But this is not necessarily a bad thing.
The web admittedly is a mess. This is apparent in that a company could build its entire business model on simply being able to search and index said mess. Yet the web offers much. It entertains, informs and amuses. It offers a vast array of services and opportunities. It offers socialization with family, friends and like minds. But it also harbors those that would thieve, deceive or do harm. It is plastered with advertising at every turn. Someone is always trying to pick your pocket or pick your brain. In essence, it is a near perfect mirror of human society.
If it mirrors anything, gopher is a library. Gopher was designed by academics as a distributed hierarchical means of storing, indexing and searching plain text.
It is a quiet place with few distractions (shhhh). It has the functional
equivalents of card catalogues, shelves, stacks, the Dewey Decimal System, periodicals, journals, books and archives. And just as real libraries persist in the modern world in spite of the web, so does gopher. Both have something to offer the web can't provide: singular simplicity of purpose..."
Source:
every.sdf.org/US_ASCII/Geekish/various/web_vs_gopher.txt
#Web #Gopher
Also I completely revised the way I generate my gopher hole, but it looks almost exactly the same. Before I had some CGI running on the server, which I felt unhappy about. So I moved that to my repo where I generate the gophermaps in my build script.
I now have Gopher working again in my
CYBER HOLE
gopher://cyberhole.online:70/1/
If you don't already have a preferred Gopher client, try Lynx
https://lynx.invisible-island.net
or Lagrange
https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
Oh this? Just some odd person using #Gopher to track server status.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL8QQ6GT-42_wTygB3S-eKHLf94KpjZdZvFDbk0/
See more at gopher.someodd.zip
I updated my Gemini blog. It's Gemini for me, for now at least. Deets in the blog.
gemini://mikekreuzer.com/posts/continuing_the_experiment_more.gmi
Mirrored for the HTTP bound at:
CHIP #Gopher *coin bank* is REAL
- empty inside but full of emotions and expressions
- nice mohawk in the coin slot
- eyes printed in black/white and not painted (much better)
- magnets for the eyes/glasses in the correct orientation this time
BUY and support my work
at >> https://shop.gopherbadge.com/product/chip-gopher-coin-bank/
Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista
#lispyGopherClimate #technology #emacs #writing #lisp #gopher #podcast #LIVE #archive
https://communitymedia.video/w/hTjTR5cwshdWP7DX3VqWjB
#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman
This week, DJ @damaru of the Evolution Revolution will talk, including about using emacs as a #writer.
I will share my #eev mode experience, and @eduardoochs should be in #emacsconf on IRC.
I'm going to mention incredible show artist @prahou with reference to gef's last episode.
https://analognowhere.com
https://archives.anonradio.net/202506241600_gef.mp3
Check out this new terminal based browser called chawan https://chawan.net/gallery/index.html
Built it from source and tried it out yesterday. Works beautifully.
@MrGR widerspricht zwar meiner Erfahrung aber :okay: :cool:…
Für Vereine und Organisationen gibt's mit @delta / #deltaChat & @zulip / #Zulip sowie @RocketChat / #RocketChat passendere Optionen die auch entsprechende Administration und Archivierung erlauben.
Zulip unterstützt asynchrone Themensortierung exzellent.
RocketChat is ne weitere okay Option...
Nach der gleichen Logik würden wir alle immernoch nur #Gopher, #BBS und #IRC nutzen!
friends, u know I hate to do stuff like this but B4UDW3RK5 is on fumes. coming to Australia after the mess that was our time in the States I've still yet to land steady work or reliable contracts. I don't need much, food, housing, etc is taken care of, I just need money to keep small stuff like gopher://baud.baby ticking over - if u love stuff I do/have done; #KONPEITO, #baudVision #gopher #anonradio #tildeverse #sdf etc. consider buying me a coffee; https://ko-fi.com/b4udw3rk5
#crowdfunding
Look! I dug me a gopherhole...
gopher://gopher.ynfonatic.de/1/~alex/
Now let's figure out how to migrate Jekyll/Markdown content to gophermaps.
#gopher #frugalcomputing
Hall and Oates' "I Can't Gopher That" is one of the best songs about the limitations of the early internet.
@the_etrain The web was so much fun before it became dominated by #bigtech.
Of course, the #web is not the #internet and #gopher still exists!