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krappyesterday at 10:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Didn't the creator of the protocol go on a rant when someone made a browser for Gemini that included a favicon?

I can't imagine the backlash if someone tried to normalize Markdown. Isn't the entire point of Gemini that it can never be extended or expanded upon?

Maybe it would be better to create an entirely different protocol/alt web around Markdown that didn't risk running afoul of Gemini's philosophical restrictions?


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mattlondonyesterday at 11:02 PM

I think a "markdown-web" that uses some of the Gemini approaches for privacy and auth/identity etc would be pretty nice.

Of course, as others have said, we could just use HTML without JavaScript or cookies and we'd be a lot of the way there with 95% less effort but hey in the future we'll probably just query an AI rather than load a web page ourselves.

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