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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I would.
There’s a school of thought, which says for all of human history, we interacted with “about” a few hundred people. Sure, a few exceptions like the king or w/e, but for most ppl it held. Restoring that interaction scale, or sth close to it, may be the only way to prevent what becomes of FB, X, Reddit, and the rest.
In the olden days, there were small NON-federated, topic forums. I’m sure some sucked, that’s fair. But very many were good. Right up until FB came and steamrolled that entire forum ecosystem into the dust of history. A few remain to this day tho, and they are STILL good. They are not the toxic dumpster fires of FB and the rest.
But I agree with you, Gemini is prob not going to grow beyond a minute niche.
I think fediverse has the best shot at being better than existing big corpo crap.
To get away from trackers and ads you have to pay for that / run ot out of your basement.
People pay with their information for those ‘freee’ services.