@prologic@twtxt.net well, as they say
Is heavier than gopher
Is lighter than the web
Will not replace either
I think it has many different things to enounce, some ideological, some practical. Some that I like and some others I don’t share that much.
Some people will like the limitations, some others the encryption by default, and I guess some more will like the nostalgic factor of the Web of the 90s.
As a hacker, I like that is a ‘modernized Gopher’ with some inspiration taken from the Web, and it’s something you can actually program with a few libraries in your favourite language, so it’s a toy protocol which someone else is actually going to use. Trying to develop something on HTTP 2 or 3 nowadays seems impossible.
Having connections encrypted by default and using login by client certificates is appealing to my crypto side, although really optional (in fact there is an alternative without encryption that I can’t recall the name by now)