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From: rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gemini
Subject: Re: Google Groups
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:40:23 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Hispagatos
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On 2024-11-22, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
> Herr Montag <"Herr Montag"@thafaker.crabdance.com> wrote:
>
>> I mean: beside the Standards, also gopher is not used by a big
>> community or am I wrong?
>
> You easily can compare them via e.g. the "SMOLNET PORTAL":
>
>     <https://portal.mozz.us/>
>
> I'd argue that today's browsers are the broken part.  In most cases they
> only support HTTPS and many smolnet browsers support only one protocol
> too.
>
> The first browsers used to support many protocols and that's the status
> quo we need to get back.
>
> When Finger, FTP, Gemini, Gopher, HTTP, Nex, Spartan, ... are all just
> one click away from another, we could just use the protocol that fits
> the information or the use case best instead of looking for the one and
> only "best" protocol.
>

I agree with this 100%  lets fight the real enemy here the bloated and
in many case centralized web(http*).

Happy Hacking
ReK2

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