I don't recall who (unfortunately) but back when i first heard of Gemini (the protocol and related websites, and not the AI), I read a similar (though not exact) comparison...and that was their justification for why something like Gemini websites might eventually thrive...and i agreed with that assessment then, and i agree with your opinions now! My question is: as this splintering gets more and more pronounced, will each separate "world" be named something like the "infonet" (for the AI/get-quick-answers world); and the "socialNet" (for the fun, meandering of digital gardens)? Hmmm...

That's sort of my ideal, to be honest — why I'm less hostile to AI agent browsers. A semantic wikipedia like internet designed for AI agents as well as more traditional org-mode like hypertext database and lookup systems to crawl and correlate for users, and a neocities or gemini-like place full of digital gardens and personal posts and stories. I don't think they'd have to be totally separate — I'm not a huge fan of splitting onto a different protocol, for instance — though; I more imagine them as sort of parallel universes living interlaced through the same internet. I like infonet as a name, but maybe something like personanet would be better for the other?