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Simpler is Better

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 23, 2025

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GNU/Linux is growing (it's Windows moving down). Interest in it is also growing. The sister site attracts a lot of visitors and so do we. In Gemini Protocol, since Monday we've served 382,177 requests and we're ranked high for number of pages today:

There are 4472 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3021 of them.

Notice how the number of capsules is about to exceed 4,500. Three months ago it was 4,400.

Gemini Protocol is nice and simple. It helps us reach people who reject the bloated Web and instead focus on text.

To read our capsule over Gemini Protocol go get a client. There are some new ones out there. The current list is:

A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Python

A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Lua

A bare-bones but usable Gemini client almost 100 lines of Go

A Gemini client library in Guile Scheme

A Gemini client for Android

A Gemini client library in Go

A more recent fork of the above library

A rich Gemini client library in Nim

Agregore, a "distributed web" browser supporting Gemini

Alhena, a full-featured, multi-platform Gemini and Spartan browser

Amfora, a very feature-rich Gemini client for the terminal

AmiGemini, a Gemini client for the Commodore Amiga

Ariane, a Gemini client for Android

Astro, a Gemini client written in shell script

Astronaut, a terminal Gemini client written in Go

Asuka, a ncurses-based Gemini client

AV-98, an experimental Gemini client derived from VF-1

Bollux, a Gemini client written in pure Bash

Bombadillo, a multi-protocol client handling Gemini since 2.0.0

Castor, A graphical Gemini client written in Rust

Cgmnlm, a colorful fork of gmni

Chawan, a text-mode multi-protocol client written in Nim

Cozy, a client for Gemini and other smol protocols, written in Go

Deedum, a Gemini client for Android

Diohsc, a terminal Gemini client written in Haskell

Dragonstone, a simple GTK Gopher/Gemini client written in Vala

Elaho, a Gemini client for iOS

elpher, a emacs-based Gopher and Gemini client

Fafi, a graphical, tabbed client written in Racket

felinks, a fork of the `elinks` web browser which supports Gemini and Gopher

gacme, a Gemini client for plan9's Acme

gcat, a `cat`-like Gemini client

Gemget, a command-line Gemini downloader ala wget

GemiNaut, a user-friendly GUI client for MS Windows

gemini.koplugin, a Gemini client implemented as a KOReader plugin

Geopard, a client written in rust, using the gtk3 toolkit

Gmi, a client written in POSIX-compliant shell

gmi100, a CLI client written in 100 lines of ANSI C

gurl, a `curl`-like Gemini client

Gusmobile, a Gemini client library in Python

gmni, a combined CLI and line-mode client for POSIX/C11

Kristall, a graphical Gemini client using Qt

Lagrange, a beautiful graphical Gemini client written in C

majc, a curses client for Gemini written in Rust

masha, a simple and fast TUI Gemini client in plain C

McRoss, a graphical Gemini client written in Python/Tkinter

Moonlander, a very fancy graphical Gemini client written in Rust

ncgopher, a Gopher and Gemini client written in Rust

Natto, a suite of austere Gemini tools, including clients, in Go for OpenBSD

Offpunk, an offline-first command line client for Gemini and other protocols

Rhapsode, an "auditory web browser" which supports Gemini

Rosy Crow, a Gemini client for Android

Ruhroh, a Gemini client written as a POSIX shell script

Spwash, a bare-bones Gemini client written in C#

Sydney, a Vim-like command-line Gemini client

tgmi, a terminal-based Gemini client for linux written in Python

Twin Peaks, a graphical Gemini client written in C#

Tinmop, a distraction free terminal client for Gemini (and Pleroma!)

Vgmi, a terminal Gemini client written in C with vim-like keybindings

Vimini, a Gemini client inspired by qutebrowser

Viv, a "toy" Gemini client written in ANSI C

Zain, a graphical Gemini client written in Tcl/Tk

There's also gplaces as covered by Steve Emms a few days ago.

Gemini Protocol turns 6 in exactly 4 weeks.

With Mozilla down to its knees the Web will just be Chrom*, so we need to leave the Web to some extent.

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