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

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Isn’t that the source of most internet problems?

      Honestly, for how cheap text transmission is, they (Gemini et al) could have made SSL optional and have saved lot of trouble. Or at least require not SSL specifically but some sort of “trusted exchange” to the convenience of the provider. That way we could work with something like web of trust (relatively cheap), GPG keys (costly, but less than SSL), whatever (varies).