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Community for the appreciation and sharing of links, resources, and culture of: the smol web / small web / ~(w)~ / the indie web / or even the non-www internet (gemini, gopher, etc).

Back of a napkin definition, subject to change: if it's internet accessible and is maintained by a person, especially for non-commercial aims, then I would consider it smol. There are, however, much stricter definitions.

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What's up with Gemini development? (piefed.kobel.fyi)

submitted 7 months ago by squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to c/smolweb@slrpnk.net

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I've been testing Gemini in Lagrange browser for a couple of days now. I like the concept and philosophy behind it. Simple, small sites, mostly text based.

But, I'm wondering why most of the browsers for Android are unmaintained and outdated. This protocol is perfect for mobile. No overloaded pages, small file sizes etc.

It seems that development of a lot of Gemini software discontinued a couple of years ago. What happened?

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Long story short. Gemini was designed to be a static technology.... It got released, and that's the end. No more progress, no more features. Immediately people were frustrated with a lack of options, so people started adding on custom ways of doing things which were missing.... Suddenly lots of completing features in custom solutions arrived and with that the concept died.

The projects static goal was interesting but doomed from the beginning.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm new to the current reimagining of the small web. I remember the days of BBS through GeoCities, and while I was never active on gopher, I was aware of it.

I just learned it's still in use, and learned Gemini was a thing. I've been looking around trying to see of I could self host something, but a lot of what I found seems abandoned, which kinda corresponds to what you were talking about.

Anyway, in your opinion, is this something still viable, or was it a flash in the pan? Should I venture down the rabbit hole, or is it too late?

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I'm old enough to have used gopher back in the day and it was neat and simple to use, bit of a pain in the arse to setup. Gemini is not bad, but yeah it's pretty abandoned now. Id skip and move on to other interesting things. Like REBOL....