In my quest to find new things to become obsessed with and re-stumbled across the gemini protocol
Gemini is a protocol much like HTTP(s) but prioritises lightweight pages of information over the current bloated state that the modern internet provides us. Not trying to sound too pretentious, I like doom-scrolling and endlessly watching videos on youtube as much as the next person - but, with some of my musings on the nature of the internet and predictions to come; I really feel need to curb back on the size of what we're producing online.
I don't see the internet as something that **needs** to be on 100% of the time for everyone; obviously communications between groups/machines to keep the backbone of society running is probably a good thing to keep on running. But what's there to say to retrieving caches of data that can be stored locally to read in some down time is worse than trying to look at a local news site that's covered in full page ads and takes about 5 minutes to load despite having full 4G signal?
Tangents aside, the gemini protocol really ticks off a number of positives in the back of my mind in a number of areas
So I'm doing it, I'm shifting my website & associated blogs and what not over to gemini, and with a fair bit of code cribbing from ~ianmjones I've got it all set up to build and deploy on gemini, as well as a mirror on HTTP (with some swish lightweight CSS added to boot).
In the grand scheme of things, this post is purely test out that these builds and my configuration is all correct, so thank you reader for being a guinea-pig for this experiment.
Till next time
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