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[Byron Torres]

12 Dec 2021 14:47:22 Michael Lazar <lazar.michael22 at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 5:48 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer
> <stephane at sources.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 01:06:25PM -0500,
>> Michael Lazar <lazar.michael22 at gmail.com> wrote
>> a message of 75 lines which said:
>>
>>> Your best bet, if you're serious about this, is to go ahead and
>>> implement your proposal in your client. If others find it useful
>>> they will start using it too
>>
>> I'm not sure it is something to recommend since it can leads to "de
>> facto" standards and to "best viewed with client XYZ > 7" which were
>> one of the reasons we ran away from the Web.
>
> Speak for yourself. De-facto standards are social proof that a subset
> of the community actually wants and will use a feature. Which is much
> more convincing to me than a loud minority arguing for (or against)
> something based on principle alone.

Gemini is a principled project.
"social proof" is not proof, unqualified.

Gemini users vs everyone else is a minority.
Numbers games are not effective without substance.