The project's entire website is like that. It feels like an AI responding to a series of prompts or an expression of someone's undiagnosed or unmanaged autism.

I tried to find a page that would show what the app layer protocol was like and clicked around until I found their 'Protocol design' (https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-4.gmi) page. Way down in section 4.1.2, it finally gets to a somewhat less vague description:

The Gemini network protocol looks kind of like something between HTTP 0.9 and HTTP 1.0. There's only one kind of request, analogous to GET, and the request itself is nothing but a URL. It's sort of like a HTTP request where the only header allowed is Host.

More than 8000 words on that page alone and that's as close as they get to an actual drilled down description of what 'gemini://' is. No actual examples of what it would look like if someone implemented a client. No clear specification or explanation as to why it exists as an entirely new protocol fully incompatible with current browsers.

The more I looked, the more weird stuff I found. Their page for 'Gemini-adjacent technologies and cultures' (https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-6.gmi) links to a few other websites. The first link is to a so-called Transjovian Council (https://transjovian.org/view/index). Wtf is that? They explain it this way:

This is “The Transjovian Council”, a group of people living in the outer reaches of our system, beyond Jupiter. Out here, the light of the sun is dim and we must make due with what we have, watched over by the stern gods of the soil, of the sky, of the sea, of the underworld: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto… Here we are, in our ice mines, gene labs, in our generation habitats, and all we have is text over low bandwidth connections, with long delays. And yet! And yet, a council has formed: we take council with each other. We deliberate. As Thucydides had Pericles say in his funeral oration, thousands of years ago: “instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”

Is that a cult or a game? You get two guesses.

I decided not to click their second link and went to YouTube. All I could find were a pair of videos simply saying that it deserves broad adoption because it forces privacy upon you. It lacks the ability to post data, store cookies or cache anything, and that somehow makes it private. To borrow a phrase, it insists upon itself. I hope it never makes it into URI.