[tech] [spec] On extending gemini

[Oliver Simmons]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 17:08, Pierre-Jean Baraud <pierre-jean at baraud.fr> wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, is there not a risk in that game that's
> the most popular implementation defines the rule and hence, the game
> is not being right, but being popular?

This is kind of what happened to the HTTP/HTML web, with big
corporations such as Google taking over.
Mozilla/Firefox was created for the purpose of stopping Microsoft
taking over the web when they were a big player.

> Is there anywhere a more structured document, the equivalent of "unix
> philosophy"
> but for Gemini that would express the intention behind some of the
> "limitation"/restrictions
> of the platform that a newbie like me could refer to instead of
> learning "by chance"
> this through some response here and there (and sorry if it is an obvious link
> that I am not aware about) ?

Not exactly like that, but there's
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
(section 2)