More silly text/gemini spec proposals

[solderpunk]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 04:06:26PM +0000, solderpunk wrote:

> This is a disaster we have
> to avoid at all costs.  The user needs to be in control of this stuff.
> Presenting links for them to follow *if* they want and *when* they want
> gives them that control.  Inlining content takes it away.  We should
> respect people's bandwidth and we should respect people's attention.

I realise, by the way, that this hardcore "cyber-granola" attitude is
not an explicitly stated goal of the project anywhere, so people might
feel like it's coming out of nowhere.  To be honest, the FAQ etc. were
never written with a really general audience in mind.  This used to be a
small project where almost everybody involved was coming from
Gopherspace and/or pubnixspace, so all this stuff was just kind of
implicit and obvious and went without saying.  Hacker News felt a
million miles away!  Perhaps this should change.  I am *big* on user
autonomy.

Cheers,
Solderpunk