Kevin Boone: The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame
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The Gemini protocol has been around for over five years, but the world-wide web remains broken. This articles reviews what’s changed for the better over the last five years – and what hasn’t.

With surveillance capitalism reaching it’s peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

  • macniel@feddit.org
    4·
    1 day ago

    Honestly, I expect Gemini to remain a niche thing pretty much forever.

    It does not offer what a regular user wants: a convenient, interactive, extensible, multipurpose Web. For most, it’s incredibly boring and outdated. Even worse that it requires its own browser or translation through the local server.

    which is EXACTLY the point of Gemini. Focus is on the content. And well, you need a dedicated browser for the web as well.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      6·
      1 day ago

      Sure. That’s what makes it so appealing to the small minority that is actually into this.

      It’s not bad, and kudos to everyone keeping the project running, but widespread adoption is really not to be expected.