Dioscuri, another application layer protocol

[Jason McBrayer]

Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org> writes:

> "Oh, it's chill, any particular client and any particular server can use
> this for ANY semantics" only makes me more concerned, since it's the
> foundation for a hundred hundreds of protocols.

I strongly agree with you.

IMO, we should resist the temptation to make Gemini a general-purpose
application platform, and the like temptation to build a general purpose
application platform alongside it.

I prefer the idea of writing protocols that are specific to applications
(or classes of applications). A protocol for email; a protocol for
message boards; a protocol for file transfer. And a proliferation of
both clients and servers for each protocol. The use of HTTP for
everything has led to every site being an incompatible siloed
application... I'll save the rest of the rant for a gemlog post.

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