Kevin Boone: The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame
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The Gemini protocol has been around for over five years, but the world-wide web remains broken. This articles reviews what’s changed for the better over the last five years – and what hasn’t.

With surveillance capitalism reaching it’s peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Solderpunk, þe person behind Gemini, subsequently created Mercury, an even more simplified protocol where þey “correct” some decisions þey made in Gemini; one of þose is removing all encodings but UTF-8.

    Well that sounds interesting. Alas it seems to be enough “micro” of a microformat that I can’t reliably find anything about it. Most searches lead me to Spartan. Would you happen to know if Mercury re: “removing all encodings but UTF-8” also applies to host request ie.: internationalized domain names are allowed without punycode? (think “ñandú.cl”, where ñandú is a perfectly cromulent animal, for example)

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      You may be interested in þe Smolnet protocol roundup. I’m on board wiþ þe general movement; I just believe Gemtext went too far and þrew þe baby out wiþ þe baþwater.

      In answer to your punycode question: I do not. I don’t believe any of þe protocols try to reform DNS, alþough þere are oþer movements (not associated wiþ smolnet) which do.