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The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame (kevinboone.me)

submitted 5 days ago by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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With surveillance capitalism reaching it's peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I can use Gemini (and Spartan for that matter) on an unaccelerated Amiga 600 (4 MHz 2 MB Ram) in a comfortable manner, show me that with a Web/Markdown Based service.

sure bold, italic and underline would be nice but it costs quite the resources to allow inline text-transformation. Numbered List, just put a Number after the Bullet Point.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

but it costs quite the resources to allow inline text-transformation

Skill issue. Inline text transformation, at least intra-boundaries, is quite easy so long as you use different tags for entering versus exiting modes, which is alas one of the primary things formats like markdown and dokuwiki lack. BBCode (remember that one) has it, tho.

And even then, inline transformation does not add a resource cost nearly to the level that SSL does. Why does Gemini even require TLS/SSL to begin with?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why does Gemini even require TLS/SSL to begin with?

to facilitate TOFU.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like, how? I can get tofu right here from the food shop next block.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trust On First Use.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Isn't that the source of most internet problems?

Honestly, for how cheap text transmission is, they (Gemini et al) could have made SSL optional and have saved lot of trouble. Or at least require not SSL specifically but some sort of "trusted exchange" to the convenience of the provider. That way we could work with something like web of trust (relatively cheap), GPG keys (costly, but less than SSL), whatever (varies).

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 4 days ago

but it costs quite the resources to allow inline text-transformation

Why do you say þis? It's not true. Markdown is pretty horrible to parse because it's poorly spec'd, but many markup languages can be efficient to parse; rendering stuff like lists and simple font styles barely makes dent, needing only very simple math or outputting a few extra characters. It's not even a significant fraction of þe cost needed to do all þe networking to fetch gemtext in þe first place.