Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2025

As shown above, Gemini Protocol has been adopted by thousands of "capsules" (like Web sites, except Gemini Protocol is used, not HTTP/S and HTML).

2025 has begun strongly, with over 400,000 Web hits since midnight yesterday and quite a lot in Gemini Protocol too:

grep 12-31 /home/gemini/logs/agate.techrights.log.1 | wc -l
128772

As more people download a Gemini client^* the reach for any given capsule becomes greater. Our Gemini Edition turns 4 next month. Its availability improved since it's no longer hosted from home (we stopped that due to capacity issues, at least in part). █

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^* Latest list of Gemini clients:

1. A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Python
2. A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Lua
3. A bare-bones but usable Gemini client almost 100 lines of Go
4. A Gemini client library in Guile Scheme
5. A Gemini client for Android
6. A Gemini client library in Go
7. A more recent fork of the above library
8. A rich Gemini client library in Nim
9. Agregore, a "distributed web" browser supporting Gemini
10. Amfora, a very feature-rich Gemini client for the terminal
11. AmiGemini, a Gemini client for the Commodore Amiga
12. Ariane, a Gemini client for Android
13. Astro, a Gemini client written in shell script
14. Astronaut, a terminal Gemini client written in Go
15. Asuka, a ncurses-based Gemini client
16. AV-98, an experimental Gemini client derived from VF-1
17. Bollux, a Gemini client written in pure Bash
18. Bombadillo, a multi-protocol client handling Gemini since 2.0.0
19. Castor, A graphical Gemini client written in Rust
20. Cgmnlm, a colorful fork of gmni
21. Chawan, a text-mode multi-protocol client written in Nim
22. Deedum, a Gemini client for Android
23. Diohsc, a terminal Gemini client written in Haskell
24. Dragonstone, a simple GTK Gopher/Gemini client written in Vala
25. Elaho, a Gemini client for iOS
26. elpher, a emacs-based Gopher and Gemini client
27. Fafi, a graphical, tabbed client written in Racket
28. felinks, a fork of the `elinks` web browser which supports Gemini and Gopher
29. gacme, a Gemini client for plan9's Acme
30. gcat, a `cat`-like Gemini client
31. Gemget, a command-line Gemini downloader ala wget
32. GemiNaut, a user-friendly GUI client for MS Windows
33. Geopard, a client written in rust, using the gtk3 toolkit
34. Gmi, a client written in POSIX-compliant shell
35. gmi100, a CLI client written in 100 lines of ANSI C
36. gurl, a `curl`-like Gemini client
37. Gusmobile, a Gemini client library in Python
38. gmni, a combined CLI and line-mode client for POSIX/C11
39. Kristall, a graphical Gemini client using Qt
40. Lagrange, a beautiful graphical Gemini client written in C
41. majc, a curses client for Gemini written in Rust
42. McRoss, a graphical Gemini client written in Python/Tkinter
43. Moonlander, a very fancy graphical Gemini client written in Rust
44. ncgopher, a Gopher and Gemini client written in Rust
45. Offpunk, an offline-first command line client for Gemini and other protocols
46. Rhapsode, an "auditory web browser" which supports Gemini
47. Rosy Crow, a Gemini client for Android
48. Ruhroh, a Gemini client written as a POSIX shell script
49. Spwash, a bare-bones Gemini client written in C#
50. Sydney, a Vim-like command-line Gemini client
51. tgmi, a terminal-based Gemini client for linux written in Python
52. Twin Peaks, a graphical Gemini client written in C#
53. Tinmop, a distraction free terminal client for Gemini (and Pleroma!)
54. Vgmi, a terminal Gemini client written in C with vim-like keybindings
55. Vimini, a Gemini client inspired by qutebrowser
56. Viv, a "toy" Gemini client written in ANSI C
57. Zain, a graphical Gemini client written in Tcl/Tk