Gemini
HTTP is a bloated protocol.
Any visit to the website of a large company will tell you this. Significant sizes of applications (often over 5 megabytes!), load times, and the constant reminder to consent to cookies are all emblematic of what our internet has become -- a service hostile to its users for the sake of profit. Practically every website you visit tracks your information to collect both analytics and personal data, assembling a profile of you that can be sold to advertisers, government agencies and whoever else wants a cut of your data.
Gemini is a new protocol for browsing the internet founded by solderpunk. it's designed only to serve data, and intends to foster a friendlier internet -- one in which arbitrary information can't be passed from consumer to producer no matter what the motivation.
Gemini can be thought of as the HTTPS equivalent of Gopher: all traffic is secured and encrypted.
Put this wiki on Gemini soon.
Locate the YouTube layer!
[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.txt]
distribution of arbitrary files; has special consideration for serving
lightweight format that allows linking between files!
maintained by solderpunk@sdf.org
middle child: minimalist proof of concept
designed for simplicity, basic client creation and usability
privacy! the internet is not a safe place for plaintext. generality!
tls ? gopher can be written from scratch! but gopher still depends on ip
stack, dns resolver and filesystem. using tls for cryptography is necessary. tls
limits access to more modern machines, but it makes no sense to sacrifice all
privacy protections to accomodate them.
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Why Gemini?