Gemini is Solutionism
I agree with the author, but from a different direction. The Gemini community has this ethos that stripping away all the styling etc. makes the internet about &quot;content&quot; again. Setting aside for the moment that the definition that content = text is unnecessarily reductive (and insulting to other forms of content - is a beautiful animation not content? is an interactive map of a country showing how covid is affecting it not content?), in my experience - people who care deeply about content are doing everything except bikeshedding about internet protocols.<p>The people whose content I most respect are writing into a blogger setup that hasn&#x27;t changed for decades, or into Wordpress&#x27;s editor that feels like it actively fights you when you want to write. They like making it look like <i>they</i> want it to, and they like having analytics or getting paid for their content with ads or subscriptions. And on the other hand, barring one notable exception I haven&#x27;t found anybody in the gemini space whose content I found interesting in itself. (Of course, that&#x27;s just personal opinion - you might find many more people in the gemini space interesting.) And the moment I realized that a significant portion of the content on the gemini space was about implementing a gemini reader, it hit me that it was pure solutionism. Gemini is a protocol for techies who want to bikeshed about tech!<p>(I could also go on about how the idea that stripping content of styles or &quot;&quot;&quot;fluff&quot;&quot;&quot; is the only way for readers to get it on their own terms. I use stylus to override the font on every website I visit - it didn&#x27;t require reinventing the wheel for that!)