[discussion] Interesting uses

[Patrick Delaney]

Hear hear.  I understand the temptation to continually add capabilities 
but it should be resisted.  If feature parity with http was the goal 
there would be no real reason for Gemini.  It's constraints are it's 
allure.  From what I understand there are other gemini-adjacent 
protocols that would fill the gaps in capabilities some people want and 
are in need of contributions. Speaking for myself, I was drawn to the 
protocol after seeing the quality of content that people were putting 
into their capsules, working under the assumption that content was king 
in gemini-space.  I would hate to see that undermined (albeit not 
maliciously or intentionally).

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> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:20:05 -0500
> From: Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>
> To: Nathan Galt <mailinglists at ngalt.com>
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> 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 at gmail.com
> gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/
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> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:37 PM Nathan Galt <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at 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?
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> From: "ew.gemini" <ew.gemini at nassur.net>
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> Hello,
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> Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I mean, I thought the whole idea of Gemini was to do content
>> delivery, in simplicity, as well as possible.
>> ...
>> 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.
> I agree, and for the backend thing, solderpunk has described it well:
> => gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/a-vision-for-gemini-applications.gmi
>
>> Devin Prater
>> r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
>> gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:37 PM Nathan Galt <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:
>>
>>   > On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at 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?
> Cheers,
> ~ew
>