I mean, you can do all that now, so that's not the problem. The problem would be convincing millions of people to switch, when 99.99999% of them couldn't care less.

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vbezhenar 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My idea is to use Markdown over HTTP(S). It's relatively easy to implement Markdown renderer, compared to HTML renderer. It's possible to browse that kind of website with HTML browser with very simple wrapper either on client or server side, so it's backwards compatible. It's rich enough for a lot of websites with actually useful content.

Now I know that Markdown generally can include HTML tags, so probably it should be somewhat restricted.

It could allow to implement second web in a compatible way with simple browsers.

	▲	coryrc 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can just use HTML4 if you want, it's already supported and standardized. Markdown is very much not.
	▲	sunshine-o 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I believe this is the way we might get out of this mess. With a markdown over HTTP browser I could already almost browse Github through the READMEs and probably other websites. Markdown is really a loved and now quite popular format. It is sad gemini created a separate closed format instead of just adopting it.

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billforsternz 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A few too many 9s there I think. You're estimating that only 1 person in every 10 million could care less. So less than 50 such people in the USA for example

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makapuf 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe you dont need a big enough % to change but a sufficient absolute number, which given internet size might happen with the right 0.00001%

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alcover 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh they would care if one shows them much snappier versions of services they use. They just don't know better.