@freakazoid @joepie91 Gemini may be the simplified version of the web that we need. Is it oversimplified to the point of toxicity? Quite possibly. Must admit I haven't yet gotten into it, as it doesn't seem very interesting. Perhaps it has not yet reached critical mass, but as likely as not it's too white. No doubt any number of constituencies would want features added, and I would hate to see that face a wall of resistance. Nevertheless, standards bloat is a thing. https://astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2020/04/21/standards-bloat-is-a-thing/
@n8chz @freakazoid Gemini does not provide the features that the general public expects from the web and, crucially, does not intend to.
Trying to make Gemini the new Thing For Everybody would not be good for either Gemini *or* the general public, I suspect, and just lead to a lot of conflicts in vision.
@n8chz @freakazoid (Aside, I don't consider Gemini to fall under 'toxic minimalism' specifically because they actually recognize that they are a niche thing for a specific group of people, and they don't claim to be "all anyone needs")
@joepie91 @freakazoid I think they've got the right idea with protocol simplification. It may be they're oversimplifying, but I do think overly-complex standards are part of what's taking the web out of noncommercial hands. The non-technical public, even assuming it doesn't want an at least partially noncommercial web, is almost certainly not well served by monstrously large entry costs.