Yeah, instead someone makes a new and incompatible protocol whenever they want to change it.

> The SmolNet consists of content available through alternative protocols outside the web such as gemini:// gopher:// Gopher+ gophers:// finger:// spartan:// text:// SuperText nex:// scorpion:// mercury:// titan:// guppy:// scroll:// molerat:// terse:// fsp://. There is a summary of the main SmolNet protocols.

- https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/SmolNet

Molerat at least seems to use Markdown but many do seem to be "Gemini but X." I wonder how much use any of those get?