Gemini Newsgroup RFD

[Vlad Markov]

My 2 cents - I do not think people newly interested in Gemini will think of looking in a newsgroup without Gemini in the name.

On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:00:12 +0000
"Jonathan McHugh" <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> wrote:

> 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@libre.brussels
> 
> October 5, 2021 5:27 AM, "Nathan Galt" <mailinglists@ngalt.com> wrote:
> 
> >> On Oct 3, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Plain Text <text@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@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?


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