From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sun, 5 May 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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"....   
      
   Maybe time to head back to the BBS world? Plenty of them run over telnet   
   or ssh these days.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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