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🤍 Appeal to the Browser Goddesses 🤍
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@winterschon@bsd.cafe Today’s browsers are monsters, designed to serve overloaded and bloated websites. Today’s websites and web-apps are designed to take everything just because it’s there. I miss the good old days of the internet, when it was mainly designed for sharing information in plain text format (that was the time even before annoying gifs showed up). But unfortunately these days will never come back.
that's why i love the gemini protocol. it doesn't even support images, just plain text.
Safari has a new feature where you can click on annoying website components and make them disappear. It’s AMAZING.
uBlock Origin has this too 🤔
@doerk @winterschon That's why the #geminiprotocol is such a nice thing.
@thorstenzoeller@exquisite.social @doerk@nrw.social yes! I was just mentioning that in another response. love gemini, still need to setup a server. 🤩
@thorstenzoeller @winterschon It is. 99% of the time Images and graphical elements are unnecessary. There are only few reasons for Images, like online shopping or booking your hotel for the next trips. These are things I wouldn’t like to do without having seen a photo. But most times photos are just there to be there, for no good reason.
@doerk @winterschon Exactly, I completely agree. There are definitely situations in which text alone is not sufficient (or other media is preferable), but there are very, very few of those.
And again, https://justinjackson.ca/words.html comes to my mind...
@thorstenzoeller@exquisite.social @doerk@nrw.social that's a great page. reminds me of a purposeful design choice from the Gemini protocol project; it's all text for similar reasons.
https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-4.gmi
@winterschon@bsd.cafe @thorstenzoeller@exquisite.social The only thing Gemini lacks is bold and cursive fonts. At least it seems like this is not possible.