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   sizeofcat wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-12 18:39:13 +0000, Radical said:   
   >   
   >> anon@urmom.com wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:19:41 -0000 (UTC), Slimes wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> https://portal.mozz.us   
   >>>>   
   >>>> List of old school and modern minimalist services.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Finger Gopher Gemini …and so on.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> SLIMES!   
   >>>   
   >>> This is cool. I haven't used gemini:// before today.   
   >>> Currently lurking gemini://bbs.geminispace.org via amfora.   
   >>>   
   >>> Just wanted to make it known that your post was witnessed.   
   >>> Found something interesting to add as a side note...   
   >>>   
   >>> Broadly relevant to why many of us are here:   
   >>>   
   >>>> [The Gemini protocol] is explicitly designed to be non-extensible.   
   >>>> To minimise the risk of Gemini slowly mutating into something more web-   
   >>> like, it was decided to [include] one and exactly one piece of   
   >>> information   
   >>> in the response header for successful requests. Including two pieces of   
   >>> information with a specified delimiter would provide a very obvious path   
   >>> for later adding a third piece - just use the same delimiter again.   
   >>> There   
   >>> is basically no stable position between one piece of information and   
   >>> arbitrarily many pieces of information, so Gemini sticks hard to the   
   >>> former option, even if it means having to sacrifice some nice and   
   >>> seemingly harmless functionality. 🗞️   
   >>> https://lwn.net/Articles/845446/   
   >>>   
   >>> More on why that "non-extensible" is relevant to keeping that protocol   
   >>> free:   
   >>>   
   >>>> How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)   
   >>> gemini://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.gmi   
   >>> https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I got interested in gemini a few years ago. I love the idea of a   
   >> protocol so simple, even a dummy like me can write a functional   
   >> reader. I haven't checked it out in a while, though.   
   >   
   > Keep in mind that gemini requires TLS, therefore you can't use gemini on   
   > retro hardware with retro software. It kinda dilutes the point of the   
   > protocol, doesn't it?   
   >   
   I hadn't thought of that. I didn't think retro hardware was related to   
   the purpose, but then I don't have any retro hardware myself,   
   unfortunately.   
      
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