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Our Gemini Adoption One Year Later
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IN FEBRUARY last year we set up our Gemini capsule and later shared some instructions/guidance on setting up one's own Gemini server at home. It's a lot simpler than setting up a Web site!
"There's an advantage associated with being an "early adopter"."As we noted earlier this week, Gemini had expanded a lot in January, a lot more than other alternatives to the Web (like Web0). As the graphs shown in the video make clear, Geminispace added a net of 73 capsules in the past 2.5 weeks alone, at least based on Lupa. That's a gain of 5% in less than 20 days! It took almost 3 years -- yes, years -- to reach 1,600 and now we're seeing gains of over 100 per month. Will Geminispace double in size in 2022? Will it triple in size? We can only hope because we've sunk or invested a lot of time/effort in it. There's an advantage associated with being an "early adopter". We've probably served about 2-3 million pages over gemini:// this past year.
As Andre Alves Garzia put it last week: "Since the markup language is so simple, it lowers the barrier of entry for those wanting to produce content. There is no need to learn web design and have a pretty site (nothing against those, I like them but they add friction to newcomers). One can learn all about Gemtext in less than an hour and be happy. [...] The world is not made richer by having less options for hypertext networks. Gemini is not the Web, and it doesn’t want to be the Web. Gemini is its own thing that will co-exist with the Web." ⬆