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Summary: My viewpoint on how Gemini communities can encourage more people not only to join Geminispace (Gemini has just made it into Linux Magazine) but also to stay there

GEMINI is still growing and our capsule too grows by about 20 pages per day, resulting in more visits each month. It's used for a lot of our operations, including Git and IPFS indexing. I myself use our capsule as an RSS reader of sorts; I use Gemini to get the weather and some news. Gemini is growing bigger and better; even Wikipedia is now accessible through Gemini.

What will likely take Gemini to the "next level" is more cross-capsule linking, for reasons explained in the video above. Gemini capsules have grown busier so far this year (at least some of the larger capsules) and a tail of the log shows the 'pulse' of the cosmos (not pulsars), which is being mapped by various Gemini enthusiasts, including in Lupa. Well Lupa tracks links, follows links, and finds new capsules. It also counts such links (outgoing/incoming), which can be used to score the inter-connectivity of the whole space. Many capsules are still small, self-referential, and some capsules are referencing the Web for the most part, spilling out readership to another protocol (which many Gemini readers would rather avoid).

It would probably be useful if more capsules set up aggregators and syndicators, giving visibility to many other capsules, exposing the true extent of the space and averting/avoiding the risk of centralisation. ⬆