Spacewalk is one hub of many in the fast-growing Geminispace, which is estimated to have over 2,500 capsules and many daily updates

Summary: Gemini links have become abundant enough that they justify having their own section in Daily Links instead of scattered around and blended with World Wide Web links

THE coming week will be mostly devoted to EPO news because EPO affairs are very important and it's a critical time (hopefully António Campinos will be tentatively ousted).

But that does not mean we slow down with Daily Links and site improvement. This past week we made slight improvements to the Gemini capsule as well. The next batch of Daily Links has a whole section partitioned aside and reserved for Gopher/Gemini links. The template associated with the change has just been pushed to Git and will likely be subjected to further tweaks over the next few days.

"Gemini is nowhere near perfect; but it does just about enough for most use cases."The Web is quickly moving in a direction we do not like. There's not much journalism left in it, it's overrun by spam, it's far too bloated, and few companies control or spy on the lion's share of Web activity.

We're not leaving the Web, but we're setting one foot in the smaller lifeboat just in case the Web goes under. One day it will. Nothing lasts forever. The Web is no longer a platform or a protocol for Web pages but for programs or "webapps". We don't want that. We don't need that. We already got rid of Adobe Trash (Flash), but Google et al recreate it algorithmically -- mostly in Chromium -- and then "standardise" what they implemented (rammed down our throats through W3C). Shades of Microsoft OOXML and ISO... sans the bribes and overt corruption.

Suffice to say, this has severe ramifications for security, the environment (many facets to how it ruins the planet, ranging from new device production/manufacturing to usage, delivery, and computation), and fairness/neutrality. The Web fosters monopolies; it has become increasingly centralised, as some documentaries warned over a decade ago. We too have cautioned about it and in 2020 we took action.

Gemini is nowhere near perfect; but it does just about enough for most use cases. ⬆