@laru@norm Sure! It is, however, limited to essentially 90s-style CGI applications, so have fun building a client that won't also feel like that There are no cookies or things like that, only "sessions" based on mTLS
@privateger@norm yeah but isnt that the point? like if you dont like the bbs style experience then gemini prolly isnt for you
the main issue that would come into my mind is the lack of automatic updates (as in notifications)
if you want to avoid the web platform but still want an interactive graphical ui then maybe using a fedi client as a dedicated program would be the best choice?
@laru@norm well, yes, that is basically my point. gemini is a nice little niche, thinking it will do even 1% of what the web Actually Does nowadays is just fantasy. it will not "replace the web"
there's a reason things are the way they are, Gemini would've morphed into the same end result, but for some reason is seen as so pure and incorruptible
@laru@norm browsers did not start out working the way they do now, and you cannot hope to fix the problems inherent to the advertising industry and capitalism in general by adopting a more restrictive protocol that doesn't even support headers
@privateger@norm personally im just seeing gemini as a very simple protocol for sharing information and i think thats beautiful
i dont inherently hate webapps or anything, in fact i use and write them myself, but the entire ecosystem around it is very complex and thats harmful for client diversity
so i think its always good to at least have a simpler option to fall back to, that works anywhere, even on a potato or some obscure device; in this case that could mean using a combination of native applications and gemini for things that follow the pattern of someone sharing information and you wanting to read it, where high interactivity isnt that important
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