{"id":7304,"date":"2022-01-27T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/new-protocol-geminis-users-panned-for-being-exclusionary-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:06:50","slug":"new-protocol-geminis-users-panned-for-being-exclusionary-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/new-protocol-geminis-users-panned-for-being-exclusionary-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"New protocol Gemini’s users panned for being exclusionary \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Project Gemini<\/a> is a new internet protocol designed to be simpler and lighter to make it easier for people to design, run, and use their own sites.<\/p>\n

Described by network engineer St\u00e9phane Bortzmeyer at FOSDEM 2021<\/a> as a new ultra-simple protocol that is modern but “looks retro,” it was designed to help the user opt out of “pervasive user tracking [and]… distractions from the actual content.”<\/p>\n

Some of those with a penchant for irritating spelling call it the “smol web.” It’s light enough for vintage computers, and easy to create both clients and pages. It’s not designed to replace the web, but as an adjunct to it. It also makes it much easier to host your own site. As the project points out, it’s “heavier than gopher… lighter than the web, [and] will not replace either.”<\/p>\n

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