Why I'm on Gemini

(Alternative title: "Yes, another Gemini log about Gemini")

How it started

If you hang out in FOSS circles online you'll know there's been a pretty big buzz around Gemini lately. Fosstodon (where I call home on Mastodon) has been singing Gemini's praises, preaching about how Gemini will fix all the problems with the bloated, unusable privacy nightmare that is the modern web. Several big Youtube creators have featured it and also had great things to say about it. But I didn't get it.

Gemini is just so limited in what it can be used for. Frankly it's even impressive that people have managed to create search engines using it. You can forget about sites filled with user generated content like Mastodon or Reddit. If you want stripped-down, plaintext only sites, http can do that. Then what is Gemini even for?

How it's going

At some point I stopped thinking of Gemini like a competing internet protocol and more like its own platform. It's not designed to replace the web and it never will. It will never see mainstream popularity. All that is ok because what makes Gemini cool is the community behind it.

I see Gemini as a place to just dump some thoughts every few days and see what other people are up to, similar to how I see Mastodon. If nobody finds this and reads it, I'm ok with that. Getting my thoughts out there I think is just fun and good practice.

If you've made it this far, go ahead and reach out to me on Mastodon and let me know where I can find your Gemini capsule if you have one. My bookmarks are looking a bit empty right now.

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