The deployment procedure is too complex. Have we learned nothing in the past 30 years?<p>One of the major shortcomings of the WWW is that it requires technical skills to publish content. If this was as simple as consuming it, and we had the equivalent UX as the web browser, the centralization we got and all its associated problems would've been minimized, if not avoided altogether.<p>Maintaining the P2P distributed nature of the internet is crucial in protocols of this type. Otherwise once (if) it ever gains traction, the alternative will have the same problems. Gemini doesn't address these issues directly, other than by being very niche and deliberately brutalist. This means it was never designed to be popular, so this article will not appeal to anyone who doesn't already have an interest in it. Let alone entice anyone to escape the current web.<p>Yes, the current web is deeply broken beyond repair. Using it is a hostile and frustrating experience. I'm not sure what the solution to these problems is, but it's certainly not Gemini.