@adiz @volpeon @aks Honestly, I would have been fine with Gemini if they would have just made embedding photos and videos a thing in the spec. Of course I could code a "gemini browser" which would do those things, but it would be a hack and the people writing gemini sites wouldn't want to adjust their pages for it (put video and image links in between the text rather than at the end etc).

Honestly a markdown based "html alternative" with native image and video embedding (using system codecs maybe) could easily become a "next big thing" in self-hosting circles. Sure, you can do that with html+css too, but it would be "cool" and allow for writing tons of different clients.