Upcoming Gemini Presentation, Brussels

[Jonathan McHugh]

Hi Andrew,

I find the frontier of Gemini interesting in itself.

Naturally, its worth emphasizing heavily the core, offified concepts and expectations.

With that, my normative opinion is that the simplicity, terseness, and accessibility can provide a very interesting range of bespoke usecases and activity - including cottage industries.

The community is full of people who like using niche, minimalist tools, as well as testing limitations. If I can go through some old posts for aposite quotes then hopefully the (openminded) Software Freedom Day audience will make their own opinions.

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

August 31, 2021 3:26 PM, "Andrew Singleton" <singletona082@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unsure if this is something that will fit your tone or presentation length, but an explanation on
> Gemini as supplementary protocol rather than 'well why not refit the search query so you can use
> that to make a message board/chatroom/etc' or 'how about we add *thing*?'
> 
> Arguments could be made for an expansion of Gemini, but the point of Gemini is this is literally
> all it does or really should do. Video streaming, shopping/banking, hat, message boards, etc are
> problems other protocols can solve and more power for people who come up with lean solutions for
> each (though I suspect shopping/banking won't ever change as you need institutional backing to roll
> those out.)
> 
> For a time I grumbled st the lack of Gemini content on YouTube or odessy and couldn't understand
> why. Thing is Everything that strictly needed saying already had been along with the fact Gemini
> itself is exceedingly niche. Sure I would love more people talking about it, but at the same time?
> What else is there to say?
> 
> Maybe going into what people can do server side?