The geminauts (Was: Gempub 1.0.0 ; A new eBook format based on Gemini Protocol's Gemtext

[Rohan Kumar]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:37:44PM +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 18:58, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> wrote:
>> Yes, this is important for outreach. Some Gemini fans advertise Gemini
>> with a reference to Gopher. However, Gopher means nothing for the
>> young people.

I get what you mean, but you'd be surprised at how many Gophers aren't old enough to drink in the U.S. (i.e., <21yo). At least a fifth of the gophers I've met on IRC were around my age group (20±5).

> The opposite isn't too good though, from the two videos that popped up
> on my YouTube homepage they seemed to describe it as a "replacement
> for the web" and as if the aim was to take tracking for the web. Which
> Gemini is not.

Agree that this is problematic. I prefer to describe Gemini as "an alternative to--but not a replacement of--the Web and Gopher".

> Myself I learnt about Gemini via the OpenStreetMap Discord server
> (libre volunteer mapper community^).
> I can't remember exactly, but I was complaining about the web and
> someone gave a link to the Gemini Wikipedia page.

This is very similar to my experience; I was initially introduced to Gemini on IRC by another teen when I complained about the Web, but I didn't go all-in until some bloggers and Fediverse users started talking about + adopting it.

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/Seirdy