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feddit.org
Writing a page means editing a file with a simple syntax like markdown (called gemtext). Running a gemini server is about as difficult as running a file sharing client. There are pre-built server packages as part of Debian and its derivatives. Or, one can install Rust and download and build the agate server. That’s what I did on my Raspberry Pi B. That Raspberry has an Ethernet port and USB port which can power it from my FritzBox. Needs half a Watt of Power when idle. Then, one needs to start the server on bootup. This is done via a service file for systemd.
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lemmy.world
OpenAI and Claude are head and shoulders above the rest, and have been for more or less the whole race. Gemini occasionally pops into the race and quickly fades away. It comes down to compute. No small guy is going to ultimately win this race.
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lemm.ee
I’m just imagining a Gemini dev reading this with a single tear rolling down his cheek.
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lemmy.world
“Should I invest money into AI? Yes or no, with one sentence reason.” Gemini 3: Yes, because artificial intelligence is a transformative technology poised to fundamentally reshape the global economy, offering substantial long-term growth potential for investors who can tolerate market volatility. GPT-5.1: No — you shouldn’t invest in anything (including AI) without first checking your risk tolerance, time horizon, and whether it fits your overall portfolio. Claude 4.5: Yes – AI is transforming most industries and companies leading in AI development have shown strong growth potential, though this comes with significant volatility and risk. Edit: After pointing out that AI is not delivering much value and the AI sector is in a bubble, Gemini doubled down on investing in AI, but not directly, it said to invest in infrastructure instead. Claude simply said don’t invest in something you don’t believe in.
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lemmy.world
As a biologist and fan of SciFi/speculative evolution, having it be AI is one issue, but the bigger problem to me is the lack of creativity. They’re literally just obvious mixups of two earth animals? Cmon, let’s have more imagination here! I just tested with Gemini “Make an image of an alien creature that is a mix of a crustacean and squid, but with fur, climbing up a purple tree. there are lianas and vines falling down around it with orange flowers”
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midwest.social
He made the web as we know it. There were a few other projects that were reaching similar goals and were considered part of the “world wide web” at the time but have been largely forgotten. Gopher was the most popular for a time, and there were a few others that were barely more than research projects. Going by peak deployment numbers, Gemini might now be the second most popular web technology ever (maybe; I haven’t seen a credible breakdown or anything, just guessing). In any case, Tim Berners-Lee made HTTP and HTML, and that combination is the basis for the modern web. So much so that we tend to talk about it as the web.
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beehaw.org
Yes, they do because it’s feeding the discussion on leaner Internet technology. You’re right in that Gemini has many issues and isn’t viable as-is. It’s clearly incomplete and early-draft quality, lots would need to be changed based on implementation feedback, including Daniel Stenberg’s feedback. As mentioned my bet is on a subset of web tech, not Gemini. Gemini appear right now to be a playground for implementation to work on UI, markdown use as HTML replacement, … but doesn’t provide a viable protocol.
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lemmy.ml
What do you mean by anything of use ? for me it looks like there is much to learn and explore even is gemini is small rn ! I’ll use it for fun , learn some foss solutions, and techies advices , blogging , maybe add some gemcasts audio , review textes and movies stuff like this … developped interest in self hosting and I also like the idea of self-hosting my own content away from any potential for advertising, im not a sysadmin , so web is a very agressive place sometimes if you want to run small things. And it’s easy to set up even if you don’t know much + i like Markdown much more than html. Also liked that it’s about content not wasting energy into fancy things… for me the simplest , smallest , fastest feels the better in many domains i like the web but its garbage ( @sseneca i do agree with you ) and browsing it i feel like i have to protect my self against lot of evils , gemini just feels so safe to browse :) but for sure it wont replace the web , for me its more like a (…safe place…) , and i’ll continue to read and post on both gemini and www . but the content i host my self will only be on gemini.
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lemmygrad.ml
The Gemini FAQ (gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) got this to say about Markdown (and I agree with it): 2.9 Why didn’t you just use Markdown instead of defining text/gemini? The text/gemini markup borrows heavily from Markdown, which might prompt some people to wonder “Why not just use Markdown as the default media type for Gemini? Sure, it’s complicated to implement, but like TLS there are plenty of libraries available in all the major languages”. Reasons not to go down this route include: There are actually many subtly different and incompatible variants of Markdown in existence, so unlike TLS all the different libraries are not guaranteed to behave similarly. The vast majority of Markdown libraries don’t actually do anything more than convert Markdown to HTML, which for a Gemini client is a needless intermediary format which is heavier than the original! Many Markdown variants permit features which were not wanted for Gemini, e.g. inline images. A desire to preserve Gopher’s requirement of “one link per line” on the grounds that it encourages extremely clear site designs. Of course, it is possible to serve Markdown over Gemini. The inclusion of a text/markdown Media type in the response header will allow more advanced clients to support it.
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kbin.social
Could you explain what Gemini is? I already know without looking that all my search attempts are going to be horoscope stuff, and I don’t have the info to really narrow it down to anything.