Gemini is no social network

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From: David <david@arch.invalid>

Subject: Gemini is no social network

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:59 +0100

Message-ID: <sn6h9b$fst$1@gioia.aioe.org>

Gemini is a read-only protocol for hyperlinked content distribution, as

Drew DeVault put it recently. Referring to other people's posts via

one's own posts does not make it a social network. That's just

one-way-linked Gemini space. There are no backlinks, except for

resorting to querying the index of a search engine, maybe.

Also the idea of compiling multiple Gemini texts into an EPUB archive

for later offline consumption very nicely fits to the conception of

Gemini's read-only nature.

Thanks for sharing those thoughts!

gemini://text.eapl.mx/quick-experiment-antenna-to-epub

gemini://drewdevault.com/2021/11/15/Reframing-gemini.gmi

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