[discussion] Interesting uses

[Devin Prater]

I mean, I thought the whole idea of Gemini was to do content delivery, in
simplicity, as well as possible. There's not much one can do with it kinda
by design. The same should have been true with the web, but then people
were like "oh hey we have this thing already, why not use it for showing
email?" And on and on it goes. And now we have a content delivery system
meant for documents hyperlinked together used for applications. For
accessibility, that sucks because our program that were designed for
reading virtual documents, with links, headings, all that, now have to
handle applications using the same tech as documents, with features
hurriedly added into both screen readers and browser tech and Elektron, to
make it work slightly well. So I vote for just using Gemini as Gemini;
small static sites linked together, with little games and a search engine
or two to link things together. Sure something cool could be made, but
that's on the backend, not the frontend, please.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater@gmail.com
gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/



On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:37 PM Nathan Galt <mailinglists@ngalt.com> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > So other than a 'small web' or possibly as e-book delivery, have there
> been any interesting use cases?
>
> There’s probably something in the question that I’m not understanding, but
> since everything on/in Gemini is either on the Small Web or is an e-book,
> what else _could_ there be? Small Company Intranets?