Assuming disallow-all, and some research on robots.txt in Geminispace (Was: Re: robots.txt for Gemini formalised)

[Luke Emmet]

On 26-Nov-2020 16:24, marc wrote:
>> I don't see it as Gemini's role to attempt to set a cultural/legal privacy
>> framework for servers who are choosing to publish on Gemini. We cannot
>> imagine we can break new ground in this respect.
> That seems ... rather defeatist.
>
> Alasdair Gray provides an inspirational quote for a situation like this:
>
>    "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation"
Well, I wasn't expecting to have my Utopian credentials questioned ;-)

After all, I am a proponent of Gemini like everyone else here, pushing 
against the flow.

But its true I'm probably towards the pragmatic end of the scale, and I 
like to see people discussing subjects I find to be productive. Trying 
to establish alternative IPR legal precedents, contrary to the flow of 
what happens on the web seems like a lot of work to me and we can spin a 
lot of cycles doing so. But if it rings your bell, by all means continue.

I'm all for building a nice culture among the gemini-folk, but wider 
cultural changes happen slowly in my experience.

  - Luke