From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   Gemini works just fine. The protocol. The browsers. The   
   utilities. Glorious.   
      
   But the content?   
      
   Admittedly, my assessment isn't rooted in strong science   
   / math. It's more an experiential "sense" based on a   
   lot of clicking, usually starting from this endpoint   
   discoverer/aggregator:   
      
   gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/lupa-capsules.gmi   
      
   Base on experiencing URL endpoints in a somewhat big way   
   (because I really, truly do want to find fun, intelligent   
   people, so I spend a lot of time searching for them),   
   I'd say 90% of what I find is either "hello world" grade,   
   "see if shit sticks to the wall I just threw it at" kind   
   of content -OR- dead links.   
      
   About 8% of the remaining 10% is well-written whining about   
   being ignored and/or persecuted for a life "identification"   
   choice.   
      
   And so there's *maybe* 2% of the alleged content rising   
   to a quality level that doesn't feel as though a complete   
   waste of time and effort to have searched for.   
      
   Oh... and somewhere in the 98% crap there are the assfucks   
   who think it's fun to create "content" that can hang others'   
   browsers. I probably have to "kill -9" and restart Lagrange   
   a dozen times a day due to that.   
      
   Do you remember how at the top of this I typed "But the   
   content?" as though there were something lesser about the   
   content. Let's not forget that's merely symptomatic of   
   the actual problem, which is that there just plain aren't   
   many fun, intelligent people out there *period*.   
      
   I occasionally get upset with the internet (silly as it   
   sounds) for having opened my eyes to that fact. I miss   
   being blissfully ignorant of just how pathetic this species   
   is. I actually had *hope* back when first exploring local   
   BBS's, and then the internet. *Genuine* "Surely I'll soon   
   be encountering intelligent life!" hope.   
      
   Nope. "GAME OVER"....   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)