Thanks to a post here a week or two ago, I started looking at Gemini and the Smolnet in general. It looks really appealing to me. No layout. Just the data and accompanying meta semantics (this is a list item, this is a quote, etc.). There's even a Geocities-like hosting service that is completely free and without ads, and it provides a Gemtext -> HTML conversion for people accessing via HTTP instead of gemini: