Moving Away From Certificate Authorities (CAs) Like Let's Encrypt Means Taking Away From the US Government the Power to 'Censor' Sites by Revoking Certificates
The centralised CAs were always just 'turnkey tyranny'
In Geminispace, "2693 (91.4 %) capsules are self-signed, 11 (0.4 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 243 (8.2 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)," Lupa's statistics page says today (up until yesterday it said 12, not 11). We've long watched the Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority declining. It may soon fall below 10 (capsules) despite the total number of capsules increasing. That's generally a good thing because it means leaving behind the broken "trust" model, wherein MElon and his orange butler basically control all sites (or can deny access to them) by revoking certificates.
Yesterday Techrights served 163,022 requests in Geminispace. The sister site served 41,037, so that's over 200,000 in total in one day. A Gemini capsule is cheap to run and easy (easier than a Web site) to maintain. More people disillusioned and frustrated with social control media flock to it. █