● 06.13.22

Gemini version available ♊︎

●● World Wide Web Compared to Gopher/Gemini and IPFS

Posted in Servers, Standard at 7:37 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

-BloatSpying (a lack of privacy)Centralisation of lookup (DNS)Centralisation of “trust” (self-signed certificates rejected/discouraged)Abudance of misinformation, adsWorld Wide Web✓✓✓✓✓Gemini✘?✓✘✘Gopher✘?✓✘✘IPFS✓?✘✘✘

Summary: Internet protocols for exchange and transmission of pages compared; More ✓ means less desirable

____✓ Bad attribute.✘ Good attribute.? While in theory it is possible for Gemini capsules to spy on visitors, the data is rarely passed on. With Gopher, spying is very much possible but rarely done. IPFS is hard to track due to the swarm-like nature of it.

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