Many 'rules' (like one request -> one file) create limitations in Gemini that prevent it from being capable of web-style corporate behaviour, so even if business isn't content with regular web users and doesn't leave Gemini users alone, their options and the damage they can do is hampered (unless co-opting the entire movement).
I think the protocol being designed around ensuring it's difficult for sites to exploit visitors is a core goal that gets lost in the blinding document minimalism that's hits you when first encountering Gemini, OP didn't seem to get it.
> if business isn't content with regular web users and doesn't leave Gemini users alone, their options and the damage they can do is hampered
I am afraid you are limiting the scope of "exploitation", as enabled by Internet, to those things done by Ad companies like Google family.
But I was mostly referring to the use of Internet for all kinds of exploitation. Think of a seller on amazon putting fake reviews in the web, or deleting actual negative reviews. They won't bother with the Gemini users because there is enough victims on the real web. But if all users are using Gemini clients, then they will be writing fake reviews in Gemini domain.
That is smaller it remains, the less penetration by big business and selfish interests, and thus the more valuable it is, for the person who wants to find real, genuine information.
This also applies to real discussion. People are going to speak freely in Gemini, because there is less chance of encountering an army of shills.
Keep an eye on sites that sell gemini identities with "reputation". Once those start popping up, you ll know its time to move on to something different.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ made the interesting observation that a big chunk of that amateur OG internet never stopped or went away, Google etc. just stopped linking to it and it went invisible.
Without numbers, it's hard to say how much of it is left. However, I do believe that a big chunk left and mere tiny bits of it are left. And of course, archives of old and now dead things..
The vast majority of people on the internet are not ever exposed to that kind of web (and most of those who were have moved on). How does someone even find out such a thing exists? How does someone figure out how to participate, if their entire web experience comes from facebook-twitter-youtube-instagram era?
In the 90s, the original amateur internet was something you'd be inevitably exposed to if you did anything at all on the web. Geocities was a thing, ISPs often offered free space for hosting personal home pages. I saw normies, total non-geeks make personal home pages because that's just the kind of thing people found on the web and wanted to try. My older sister had her own homepage. She's not a programmer and not a geek. Her site was a part of some webring, linking other sites made by teenage girls..
"Social media" was forums, likewise hosted by individuals, often in conjunction with their personal home pages, linking to other such sites...
The deal to be acquired by Muse Group was announced 30 April, and "Muse Group was formed just a few days prior to the Audacity announcement, on 26 April"
The latest release "Audacity-3.0.2" tag on github is 14th April, as is the date that the Windows 3.0.2 installer was signed. So the current latest release predates the announcement and formation of Muse Group.
The privacy notice was updated 2nd July. We don't know if that's when the new clause was added, however issue #1213 on github suggests that it was.
But I've not looked at the code, so don't know what telemetry was already in place before the project was acquired. Anyone?
> I hope that GitHub is at least limiting any training data to a sensible whitelist of licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache, and similar)
Yes, and even those licences require preservation of the original copyright attribution and licence. MIT gives some wiggle room with the phrase "substantial portions", so it might just be MIT and WTFPL
Wikis would come and go like mushrooms and I too was burned once, so I figured Wikipedia's data will never be abandoned and so have been using mediawiki for over a decade. Even if mediawiki is one day abandoned the migration tools will be excellent.
history, syntax highlighting, inline images, tables etc. Markdown would be nice - and there's an extension which enables that, but who knows if that extension will have a lifespan/migration-path like Wikipedia will.
Possibly try to grease Rogan's hand to lay low on the vaccine topic/guests for a while.