A Few Of My Favorite Things (Gemini, Mastodon, Odysee) DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Andrew
I would swap to odysre if it had an Android app.
I do not count the lbry app because it is, frankly. Terrible... Especially in the face of m current vision issues it is literally unuseable due to not being able to read anything in the app because of poor contrast.
I honestly love Gemini. Sure it isn't going to take over everything...
But they isn't the point. For most people Gemini would be enough. St an aggrigate that gives a streaming feed of 'ok these people have updated' and most people would be happy so long as they can share photos and video. And that can be done with a client that makes it simple to do. Make it simple and most people woukd love Gemini for bandwidth savings and the snappier responses.
Sure I find it annoying that there is no easy way to do an in protocol community, but... To be blunt?
What we need is effecrivky something that is to the old BBS what Gemini is to gopher. Similar philosophies but with hindsight inspired changes to make it more user friendly. Because not everyone wants to bother with mailing lists.
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I would swap to odysre if it had an Android app.
I do not count the lbry app because it is, frankly. Terrible... Especially in the face of m current vision issues it is literally unuseable due to not being able to read anything in the app because of poor contrast.
I honestly love Gemini. Sure it isn't going to take over everything...
But they isn't the point. For most people Gemini would be enough. St an aggrigate that gives a streaming feed of 'ok these people have updated' and most people would be happy so long as they can share photos and video. And that can be done with a client that makes it simple to do. Make it simple and most people woukd love Gemini for bandwidth savings and the snappier responses.
Sure I find it annoying that there is no easy way to do an in protocol community, but... To be blunt?
What we need is effecrivky something that is to the old BBS what Gemini is to gopher. Similar philosophies but with hindsight inspired changes to make it more user friendly. Because not everyone wants to bother with mailing lists.
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Josh
I respectfully dislike the lack of in-line links and images and the possibility of video on gemini. to be fair, I don't like that html integrated javascript and css. if I had my way, we'd all be using html 3.2 (perhaps with some additional multimedia extensions) because light inline formatting is WAY better than interpreting a bunch of style sheets and processing of code belongs on the server, not the client. - browsers would be WAY lighter while still allowing all the nice multimedia content most of us love and expect in this day and age.
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I respectfully dislike the lack of in-line links and images and the possibility of video on gemini. to be fair, I don't like that html integrated javascript and css. if I had my way, we'd all be using html 3.2 (perhaps with some additional multimedia extensions) because light inline formatting is WAY better than interpreting a bunch of style sheets and processing of code belongs on the server, not the client. - browsers would be WAY lighter while still allowing all the nice multimedia content most of us love and expect in this day and age.
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Kwyjibo
I'm all for minimalism if that's your thing, but forcing it on everyone because a small percentage of users want it is ridiculous. That's why protocols like Gemini are impractical and will never gain any traction. You might think the Gemini syntax is nicer, but the truth is it's gimped just for the sake of being gimped. You can make a website with just HTML and no CSS or JS right now and it be just as fast as Gemini, but you'd still have those other tools at your disposal if you ever wanted to add functionality.
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I'm all for minimalism if that's your thing, but forcing it on everyone because a small percentage of users want it is ridiculous. That's why protocols like Gemini are impractical and will never gain any traction. You might think the Gemini syntax is nicer, but the truth is it's gimped just for the sake of being gimped. You can make a website with just HTML and no CSS or JS right now and it be just as fast as Gemini, but you'd still have those other tools at your disposal if you ever wanted to add functionality.
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marcello42
I am already in love with gemini.. I live in the terminal and most webpages are so dang bloated .. same goes for html formatted emails.. this was invented by the devil himself.. how could a 2 lines reply be over 16k? anyway.. thanks dt! pictures and all other medias or scripts are always potentials risks.. yes also in a jpeg there can be malware.. just sayin and not having inline links is also very good imo.. less distraction.. but for any reasons your webpage in html does look bloated again :P
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I am already in love with gemini.. I live in the terminal and most webpages are so dang bloated .. same goes for html formatted emails.. this was invented by the devil himself.. how could a 2 lines reply be over 16k? anyway.. thanks dt! pictures and all other medias or scripts are always potentials risks.. yes also in a jpeg there can be malware.. just sayin and not having inline links is also very good imo.. less distraction.. but for any reasons your webpage in html does look bloated again :P
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Dusty
I think simplified websites should make a comeback, but I just don't know, or think, that the solution is something like Gemini. The fact is that people do like their browser to have inline photos and the like. It's just nicer. But I think the better solution is to have a browser that calls other programs to integrate into it instead. Like how VLC and other media players use FFMPEG.
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I think simplified websites should make a comeback, but I just don't know, or think, that the solution is something like Gemini. The fact is that people do like their browser to have inline photos and the like. It's just nicer. But I think the better solution is to have a browser that calls other programs to integrate into it instead. Like how VLC and other media players use FFMPEG.
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Allwin
Gemini is cool, it can have its own purpose but to discredit other technologies to make it shine is not cool.
Internet speed used to be a thing way back in the dialup days, today we are in 2021 most people are streaming 4k videos are we are discussing 20kb file or 2 mb file ?
to summarize a Picture speaks a 1000 words :)
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Gemini is cool, it can have its own purpose but to discredit other technologies to make it shine is not cool.
Internet speed used to be a thing way back in the dialup days, today we are in 2021 most people are streaming 4k videos are we are discussing 20kb file or 2 mb file ?
to summarize a Picture speaks a 1000 words :)
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Peert
But aren't web browsers composed of multiple underlying programs that do their one thing? JS runtime, styling parser and html parser... (simplified)
Also it wouldn't be that hard to add gemini support into browsers, a basic client is 100 lines of code, just a html parser is potentially 10x more.
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But aren't web browsers composed of multiple underlying programs that do their one thing? JS runtime, styling parser and html parser... (simplified)
Also it wouldn't be that hard to add gemini support into browsers, a basic client is 100 lines of code, just a html parser is potentially 10x more.
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Deepak
Im not a web dev but I want gemini to display images when Im learning something. For ex: Imagine someone is posting linux output and the terminal pic of that output if I cant see it then I dont know what I am doing is right or wrong
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Im not a web dev but I want gemini to display images when Im learning something. For ex: Imagine someone is posting linux output and the terminal pic of that output if I cant see it then I dont know what I am doing is right or wrong
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MikunoNaka
Yahallo, DT
A bit off topic but congrats on getting a new office! I will miss this one because I think your background looks really cool but I think a better workplace means better content so that's better!
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Yahallo, DT
A bit off topic but congrats on getting a new office! I will miss this one because I think your background looks really cool but I think a better workplace means better content so that's better!
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Waces
To be honest I'd like a gemini style simple protocol but that supports images and videos, no, inlines or backgrounds, just media with at least an alt text for the visually impaired or when it doesn't load
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To be honest I'd like a gemini style simple protocol but that supports images and videos, no, inlines or backgrounds, just media with at least an alt text for the visually impaired or when it doesn't load
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