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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It’s fun. It has a few rough edges I would love to be fixed.
The format would make you think that’s perfect for phone browsing, it’s just text so ot should adapt easy to small screens. Well, I’ve found too many capsules that write newlines for formsting text based on a traditional desktop expected screen size. I think there should be more geminiettiquete about not making the format of the page expect any aspect ratio or size.
On the web we have css to fix that and do fancy formats that can adapt everywhere. In gemini there’s no css so publishers should avoid trying to aim for a hardcoded expected aspect. As that could break the viewing experience for many users.
Other that that it’s quite fun to read some of the little pages out there.
Since you seem more knowledgeable, don’t you think they need a better search indexing? Using their dedicated browsers like Lagrange is just frustrating in that regard.
tlgs exists, and I believe that it aint the only one.
gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
I do think it would go slightly against the vine they want to achieve, that is to have link aggregators more than search engines. Though I don’t think it would be impossible to build a search engine. It would be complicated, constricted and would need to do some tricks here and there, but I think it would be possible.
I have also thought that it would be great if there were a firefox extension that let you browse gemini. I don’t know if it would be possible, but it would probably had a nicer interface than lagrange.