I tried gemini:// and it tickled my brain that is searching for a lean, unbloated, text-focused web experience. There is a beauty in websites consisting of just hierarchical text and links. It is just enough complexity to do most of the text-based web shit we do. But why not do the same thing with html? What is the purpose of a stricter protocol? Is the friction a design choice to exclude non-technical people? I understand the protocol technically but not socially. #gemini #gopher #smallweb