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Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2025

Australia, London Arch

There are 4246 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 2912 of them.

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

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