Wait, I like HN very much, but that's just wrong. HN is basically what one tech-subreddit would be. This is fine, but not very inclusive, just because it is focused. People also like Facebook which is far from simple stuff.
Inclusiveness via simplicity is just one axis in the space of why people like things.
> HN is basically what one tech-subreddit would be
Not really. It may have been true ten years ago, but during that time Reddit has slowly accreted "features" (Reddit gifts, Reddit Premium, sponsored contents, a chat...) whereas HN didn't.
>This is fine, but not very inclusive, just because it is focused
That's neither here, nor there though. You can have 20,000 other individual Hacker News style sites on every subject, and the simplicity would still be there on each individual one.
Not every thing has to be everything to everybody, for the category of the thing to be inclusive.
And Gemini is not like content or like a speficifically-themed website like HN, it's a content delivery format (like HTTP/Gopher/etc). The allusion between Gemini to HN was for the simplicity of the presentation, wasn't referring to the kind of content HN carries.
In a site's with HN design the content could still be whatever, from whaling to development, and from rocket science to religious practices.
(If anything, something like Gemini would be much easier to make inclusive to e.g. low powered devices in the developing world, or screen readers, compared to the modern ultra dynamic news and content websites that have tons of moving parts, trackers, popups, interstitials, animations, and random JS just to deliver news and text content).
Gemini vs. HTTP ~ HN vs. Reddit