diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md b/content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md index f3e2bdf..e6250cc 100644 --- a/content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md +++ b/content/entry/gemini-appreciation-entry.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ To use Gemini, you can download a Gemini client, also known as a Gemini browser. Now that you know how to access Gemini, let's talk about what's on there. In a single word, text. That's all you'll find on Gemini. A whole bunch of text. You can find other types of media, but they won't be displayed inline. So you get what you'd expect with a text-only, non-commercial Web-like protocol. You get gemlogs (the equivalent of Weblogs) talking about people's personal lives, philosophy, poetry, ramblings, ascii art, and of course, technology. -The organization resembles that of the early Web. Search engines exist, but they don't seem to be the primary way people find things. It's mainly through Gemini communities like [Flounder](//flounder.online) and Geminauts linking to other Geminaut's capsules. It's common for Geminauts to make lists of recommended capsules for readers to explore, with a few centralized hubs and aggregators linking to many capsules. Thus it seems reasonable to assume Gemini resembles a [small-world network](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network). +The organization resembles that of the early Web. Search engines exist, but they don't seem to be the primary way people find things. It's mainly through Gemini communities like [Flounder](//flounder.online) and Geminauts linking to other Geminaut's capsules. It's common for Geminauts to make lists of recommended capsules for readers to explore, with a few centralized hubs and aggregators linking to many capsules. Thus it seems reasonable to assume Gemini resembles a [small-world network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network). The small-worldiness of Gemini reminds me very much of [Neocities](https://neocities.org/browse), which you should definitely check out if you never have before. If you're like me though and you find the Web overwhelming, Neocities is even more than your average website. That's why I can't spend too long browsing around on there, whereas I can spend hours on Gemini and not mentally tire out. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ There's some non-English capsules out there that are good to read if you're tryi # The Medium is the Message Gemini reminds me of this phrase coined by Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan: -> ["The medium is the message".](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message) +> ["The medium is the message".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message) What he meant was that most of us focus entirely on the contents of the message. We forget about the communication medium in which we encounter it. This is to say that the same message in a different communication medium isn't really the same message. The medium may in fact be more important than the message itself. |