a space case for transparent gemtext compression

[remyabel at tilde.team]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 08:20:08PM -0700, Rohan Kumar wrote:
> Only after this gains traction and is well-received by users with
> constrained bandwidth should consider adding a "MAY" statement to the Gemini
> spec describing the text/gemini+gzip MIME type. Compression support should
> never be required.

I thought the spec was finalized and not designed to be extended. I can
see clients treating gzip files specially though, no different than
lagrange supporting mp3s.