Gemini Protocol Turns Six in 10 Days From Now
4.5 years ago we adopted Gemini Protocol. Not too long afterwards the 21-year-old sister site did the same. It fits neatly into its mission, which is to curate and relay GNU/Linux news, irrespective of the site or protocol. It also clusters together related news items (many articles about the same topic).
For that, HTML or JavaScript are totally not needed.
Last week this site served 895,750 Gemini requests and the sister site served 285,164, so there's clearly a lot going on in Geminispace, even if a chunk of the traffic is bots. We didn't check to assess what % is bots, at least not lately. The solace one can find is, bot or not bot, serving pages in Geminispace is computationally cheap - even cheaper than serving a Web page in a static Web site.
Simple and light does not mean worse. Simple and light means simple and light. There's a good reason why IRC turns 37 in a couple of months and many people still use E-mail, even if the vast majority of messages are no longer E-mail but some Web page wrapped up as 'E-mail' [1, 2]. In a lot of ways Microsoft now kills the Web in the same way it doomed E-mail. Well, E-mail is an open protocol, thus it cannot be tolerated by Microsoft.
Anyway, Gemini Protocol isn't just an open protocol but also a very simple protocol. That's why so many clients exist for Gemini Protocol. If you haven't tried it yet, then give it a go today. █