See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

It is similar to the old gopher: text files, links, and images form a hypertext optimized for reading. Text is formatted like Markdown - but even simpler.

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Servers can run on a PC or Raspberry Pi which needs half a Watt of power. No FAANG companies needed. No expert knowledge needed - not more difficult than running a file sharing client.

I think it is the right thing for defense of democracy and sharing your voice in the digital realm.

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the better comparison (whether that's technically accurate or not) is to HTML + CSS + JS. Which is overly complicated for just small blogs and personal webpages etc. I think that's the "issue" Gemini is trying to solve.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still not an issue. Just throw out all modern web frameworks and stick to content-focused HTML. You can even do plaintext with unclickable links.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or if you like a more readable markup with a very thin markdown layer on either the client or server side.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

I think TeX is the right way.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Have you ever seen HTML without CSS? It's ugly as hell

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

...or is it?

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

yes

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Whoa. An update to the HTML Hell Page!

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have 2 webpages like this. Calling them webpages is a bit of stretch to be honest. One is a joke and the other is extremely single idea only. I was just experimenting with some stuff, that's all. But they are up and they don't need CSS. :-)

https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/next_underlords_update : just generate a random date, because the game died and we was waiting ages for an update
https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week : select a random game title for the selected system (old consoles only, mainly for emulation) and cache it, it will be permanent for this week, idea goes back to a forum I was using and we had a community to play random games and this is a hommage to that

Edit: BTW forgot to mention, you can output text only without HTML. In that case (like in the Random of the Week) you can use it in the terminal like output of a program.

curl https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week/mame/text

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I have a few (internal) web pages like that at work, they do the job but yes they are ugly

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Depends on the client side native styles. With Gemini, those are also needed to be adjusted.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Depends to what you compare. Many CSS (worse if it uses JavaScript) is ugly and I prefer the native look without CSS. But only if the content works well, which they often don't... And that's ugly design.