some text/gemini thoughts

(We're still fascinated by Project Gemini and still lack access to a gemini web host to be able to respond to blog posts directly, so ... doing it here, sorry.)

There's been a little bit of a conversation happening among the gemlogs that we follow on Project Gemini about the limitations of the standard Gemini markup language. Someone found an old Reddit comment that was contemptuous of its limitations, and (unsurprisingly) a lot of folks who use it regularly wanted to talk about why it's good, actually.

Oddly, though, I don't think we've actually seen any of these posts center the point that caught our attention about the text/gemini format, which is (ironically) a point we've seen made about HTML: you do not have to specify formatting.

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If you don't want that, you don't use Project Gemini. If you do, then Project Gemini is a relief.