Check out Newswaffle on Gemini:// protocol.

The web could in theory support text-first content, but it won't. The Gemini protocol, though not perfect, was built to avoid extensibility that inevitably leads us away from text. I long for the day more bloggers make their content available on Gemspace, the way we see RSS as an option on some blogs.

The web will continue to stray from text-first content because it is too easy to add things that are not text.