What's the difference between "let's encourage people to create gemini documents" and "let's encourage people to publish text/markdown documents on the www"?

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ploum 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s subtle but the Gemtext format is really really constrained, which forces people to do one thing: write text. Nothing else.

So, when you are on Gemini://, you know that you will only encounter linear text. You will read stuff, written by other people. It is really relaxing. I’m a huge fan of Gemini.

I would advice to start your Gemini journey by reading links on Antenna and Cosmos (which are link aggregators)

https://offpunk.net/gemini.html

	▲	rglullis 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I’m a huge fan of Gemini. I'm not. I get the whole "the medium is the message" and why it feels appealing to some, but I don't subscribe to the idea that the only way to have proper digital hygiene is by restraining myself to this ascetic channel. I'd rather encourage more people to put content on the web in whatever form they think is best, and I'll let it up to my user agent to filter out the noise.

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wibbily 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The dream of course would be both: if you’re already writing textual content you might as well publish it on both protocols, so anyone can get to it with any tool they like. Gemtext can be trivially converted up to Markdown, the opposite is lossy but very doable.