Gemini protocol, and why I don't use it
Jan. 26th, 2022 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starseerdrgnSo, if you haven't heard of it, the Gemini protocol is sort of a spiritual successor to Gopher, acting as an in-between to HTTP and Gopher feature-wise. I actually like Gopher for its simplicity, but Gemini... I was hesitant to jump on that bandwagon. Not because I don't think it's good, but because I wanted to see where the community went with it. I'd been following Solderpunk's journey with designing it, but then... Well, the community got involved.
Now, the Gemini community is a generally good bunch, but like any community, there are "people" who love to try and take things over. When I saw Drew Devault get involved, I swiftly made my exit. Then I recently found out that Devault pulled a "Follow my rules or suffer" card against a Gemini browser called Amfora for wanting to support favicons, and that really soured the mood for the protocol with me. Especially after seeing what remained of the now lost mailing list archives on Archive.org's Wayback Machine, where it was a lot of the same mentality from multiple people.
As they say, "live and let live". But when a community allows someone like Drew Devault run ramshod without some sort of ramifications for his actions, it just invites purism and toxicity into the fold, and I got enough of that when I used social media. I don't need any more of it in my life.
That said, that's just personal opinion. Nothing more.
Now, the Gemini community is a generally good bunch, but like any community, there are "people" who love to try and take things over. When I saw Drew Devault get involved, I swiftly made my exit. Then I recently found out that Devault pulled a "Follow my rules or suffer" card against a Gemini browser called Amfora for wanting to support favicons, and that really soured the mood for the protocol with me. Especially after seeing what remained of the now lost mailing list archives on Archive.org's Wayback Machine, where it was a lot of the same mentality from multiple people.
As they say, "live and let live". But when a community allows someone like Drew Devault run ramshod without some sort of ramifications for his actions, it just invites purism and toxicity into the fold, and I got enough of that when I used social media. I don't need any more of it in my life.
That said, that's just personal opinion. Nothing more.
