Gemini Newsgroup RFD

[Jonathan McHugh]

How many people knew where the '#' key was prior to Twitter?
How many people knew where the '`' key was prior to Gemini?

When your grandparents can find '`' on the keyboard Gemini has mainstreamed - Perhaps they^1 can serve as a tripwire to eject the protocol from the group^2? 


^1 Only your grandparents' cognition, nobody elses elders
^2 textual diambiguation wise, group is perhaps a little ambiguous, I had to cross reference again a hash of unknown societies before determining it was (indeed) the RFD Usenet group

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy at libre.brussels

October 5, 2021 5:27 AM, "Nathan Galt" <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:

>> On Oct 3, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Plain Text <text at sdfeu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:54:39 +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 00:16, Plain Text <text at sdfeu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> merged group for c.i.gopher and c.i.gemini – but lacking a … name
>>> "Small-web" or "small-net" are sometimes used, most often to describe a
>>> combination browser for these protocols.
>>> There's quite a bit of overlap between the communities.
>> 
>> Thanks, so true! And so I began to write an RFD document for "Small Scale
>> Hypertext Information Systems" in the same pad (carbon copy below):
>> https://pads.ccc.de/comp-infosystems-gemini-rfd
>> 
>> Please, anybody feel free to edit along and/or give other input, also on
>> the name and the byline, and the whole endeavour, of course, as I do not
>> want to diminish the efforts already put into the first RFD process.
> 
> This might be a fantastically premature question, but:
> 
> Twitter was once a small Ruby on Rails app. Since “small” is a functional definition, does a
> protocol get booted out of the group if it becomes too popular?