Comment by tpoacher
13 hours ago
Interesting outro. Interoperability is presumably one very big reason for this protocol.
As for why, all I can say is, download Lagrange, go to gemini://bleyble.com/cgi-bin/random, and see for yourself. It's one thing hearing about it and a completely different experience browsing the geminispace.
The different experience is largely thanks to different content, not different protocol. The protocol just serves a gatekeeping role to keep the community small enough.
> download Lagrange, go to gemini://bleyble.com/cgi-bin/random, and see for yourself.
Well, I did, and I see "Expired Certificate - ... TLS certificate has expired" :(
For others: link for desktop downloads of Lagrange - https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/releases
That was a terrible experience. For a start that site has an expired certificate, as do many of the pages it suggested, and of the pages that worked it was mostly people that dipped a toe in a few years ago and never came back or other broken function.