< I'm new to the smolnet and having an existential crisis

~techwing

> A text-based community like geminispace is also largely incompatible with visual communities centered around art or fashion. Of course it's possible to include jpegs in your capsules, but for communities that are excessively visual you'd be forced to agree it would get tedious.

The tedious viewing of images can be solved I believe (although I do not know how difficult it is to include an image on a gemini site). We can just make it so that the gemini client automatically loads pictures whenever it finds a link to a picture and have that displayed in line with text. I believe I saw one gemini client do this but I don't remember which.

I do agree with you that different kinds of communities are lacking through geminispace. I kinda wish that the communities I am in would use something other than huge http websites or Discord servers. I even considered spinning up a VPS (maybe I'm still considering it) and developing a capsule that had all the things I would want to share. However, it does end up falling into a niche within a niche unfortunately and no amount of pushing is going to get my friends to catch on.

I do still appreciate for what we have in the geminispace right now.

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