GiM's gemlog - 2025-07-31 Re: Re: Hello Gemini

Re: Hello Gemini by jecxjo

Hey, thank you for taking time to answer.

None of us seem to care that much because we are just here to read each others content and not hand over our credit card numbers.

Fair point. I can live with that. Issue is my background is (or rather was) #itsec. TOFU leaves a lot to clients,

and I'm kind of wondering, how many clients are actually doing TOFU and not just accepting any certs.

And if there's no identity behind it, we could as well generate certs every single day.

With a centralized service we see them as an authority and just accept what they say.

Nicely put.

That is not what Gemini is about. Content, with no noise. Being able to consume chunks of data as independt atoms, both programmatically and as a human, has extreme benefits. Inline links, images breaking up flows. We assume that all browser will show things the same way but that just wouldn't be the case and suddenly we are funning into an issue as to why use something more complex than what we need.

I do agree. And I agree that parsing gemtext is much easier than parsing markdown, but tbh, I don't see *that* big differences between the two.

Smolweb is about simplicity. Going back to the internet I first grew up with, Gopher was so simple that all you were there for was content.

I am somewhat envious. There were BBSes in Poland starting around 1986, but TBH, neither I nor any of my friends used one. Public (dialup) access to internet in Poland started in 1995. I don't think gopher ever took off here, most people that had access to internet at the end of 90s, were using WWW (and ofc irc, e-mail, usenet). Still, I guess it won't be groundbreaking statement if I say that web back then was very much different from what it has become.

P.S. Is there any gemini indexer using that tags you're using at the bottom?

cheers 👋

/gemlog/

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