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

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

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

    Skill issue. Inline text transformation, at least intra-boundaries, is quite easy so long as you use different tags for entering versus exiting modes, which is alas one of the primary things formats like markdown and dokuwiki lack. BBCode (remember that one) has it, tho.

    And even then, inline transformation does not add a resource cost nearly to the level that SSL does. Why does Gemini even require TLS/SSL to begin with?

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Isn’t that the source of most internet problems?

            Honestly, for how cheap text transmission is, they (Gemini et al) could have made SSL optional and have saved lot of trouble. Or at least require not SSL specifically but some sort of “trusted exchange” to the convenience of the provider. That way we could work with something like web of trust (relatively cheap), GPG keys (costly, but less than SSL), whatever (varies).