Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
Summary
The article advocates for alternative Internet protocols (Finger, Gopher, Gemini) and a decentralized, low-resource web ecosystem. It argues that these protocols offer privacy-friendly, non-JS, terminal-first access and emphasizes the importance of open-source tooling and communities (IndieWeb/tildeverse) in sustaining a small web outside HTTPS-dominated ecosystems.