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alex/
Personal blog · alex.flounder.online/gemlogwebculture
alex/ is a personal blog at alex.flounder.online about web and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his Gemini gemlog, including a post about missing the old internet and a list of places with an old internet feel. Comments link these as references, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-01
What Hacker News says?
https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi
Comment linking /gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi
on “I Miss the Old Internet (2019)”Submitted Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature as a story · 243 points
HN discussionGemini is fantastic. For anyone interested in experimenting with it without setting up a server, I've been working on a simple Gemini site builder that works over HTTP and serves the content via Gemini and HTTP proxy: https://flounder.online/ In my view, Gemini's bare-bones text format is its killer feature. Non-technical users have been able to easily write Gemtext based on a few examples and a bit of experimentati…
Comment linking /gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi
on “gemini:// space”Submitted Gemini Is Useless as a story · 4 points
HN discussionlist of places that have that old internet feel: https://alex.flounder.online/tech/bigandsmall.gmi
Comment linking /tech/bigandsmall.gmi
on “I Miss the Old Internet (2019)”Submitted Closed Registration for a Small Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemini and Desire as a story · 1 points
HN discussion