Kevin Boone: The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame
kevinboone.meThe 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
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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 For most, it’s incredibly boring and outdated.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.
At the same time, a lot of its advantages are specifically due to low adoption. What makes it more free and people-centric, for example, is exactly that barely anyone knows of its existence. Nothing stops one from infesting it much the same way regular Web is.
What would be curious, though, is the interaction between the concepts of this project and projects like Reticulum. We may need to develop alternative means of communication, including low-bandwith channels like LoRa, and for that, simple text-based sites are perfect.
which is EXACTLY the point of Gemini. Focus is on the content. And well, you need a dedicated browser for the web as well.
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.
LoRa is proprietary. Shit would be as broken as FOSS in ARM and mobile. (Fuck Qualcomm!). Agreed on the rest.