Dioscuri, another application layer protocol

[Nathan Galt]

> On Sep 28, 2020, at 6:09 AM, Martin Keegan <martin at no.ucant.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Jason McBrayer wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The ease and enjoyment of creating a reasonably good server or client for the Gemini protocol/format has led to perhaps more clients and servers than we need; a positive consequence has been to increase the amount of
> caution with which spec changes are now approached.
> 
> I think however there is a negative consequence: attention is diverted from complementary aspects of the Gemini ecosystem, namely Gemini-native content itself, and the tooling connected with it, such as distribution, discovery and syndication tools. If there were a simple, fun standard/spec for some aspect of these tools, that might attract the same useful energy as the Gemini spec itself does.

I think a lot of us would rather work on Gemini things rather than served-up-over-Gemini things. Might be a pent-up-demand kind of thing.

(says the guy who’s splitting his time between a static-gemlog generator and actually writing stuff for his capsule when he really should just do the latter)