Thoughts
Gemini fails miserably through this lens. It’s solving exactly the same problem as HTTP/HTML, just with drastically different values.
And the problem with that is that I agree with Gemini’s values and it doesn’t matter. I never use Gemini, either to read or to write, because HTTP is better when I need to do those things.
I open Lagrange when I want to use Gemini and sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by there being good content there. But if I want good content I don’t go to Lagrange first. And you can’t fix that; you can’t create a better “algorithm” or a better curation system for Gemini because of the limitations in the protocol. There’s no reason that literally anyone who doesn’t agree with Gemini’s values would use the protocol.