For those, who do not know what the Gemini protocol is, think of it as a modern, light-weight HTTP alternative without CSS or JavaScript. In layman term, you could see it as Web 1.0 reinvented. It uses GemText instead of HTML. For folks who want to try it out, you can either install a Gemini extension for your HTTPs browser (which kinda defeats the purpose, as modern browsers are heavy), or download a dedicated Gemini browser like Lagrange. Here’s a few sites you can access in Gemini.
Personally, I love it, although I miss a few stuff, like for example, multimedia, streaming and stuff like that. The memory foorprint is very low, and pages are super-fast.
What is the point of a competing standard to html/https? It works pretty well? And CSS and JS are a big part of modern websites (sometimes a bit too big of course, but still).
Https is lightweight too, if you just don’t add tons of CSS and JS dependencies?
Yeah. I don’t know Gemini in detail so maybe this is just me talking out my ass, but it seems like you could just make a minimalist web page and get the best of both worlds.
That said I honestly do kinda like the idea of a whole little community that is only minimal. Like the protocol is clearly totally unnecessary from a technical perspective… but maybe the thing it enables socially from being structured that way is the valuable part.