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I used Gopher and Hytelnet before the web existed. I am not particularly nostalgic about it. I don’t want to go back to such simplistic interfaces.

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Thanks! For me, that simplicity gives me security. The browser is extremely insecure in 2024. And most of the things I want from a browser are just content, not sophisticated SPAs. I'm in me minority in that, I know. So this protocol is excellent for that.

Also, no tracking, no upvotes, no marketing, no status-hogging people, no BS. This is refreshing. People there talk about what they really want to talk about. You are not being sold as a product, or sold at, at all.

I think you’d have better luck using a browser with JavaScript turned off.

And certainly more content.

The stuff not readable without JavaScript isn’t worth reading anyway and that still leaves you with vastly more content than what’s available on Gemini.

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