There Are Probably Over a Million Pages in Geminispace
Occasionally people online ask, how large is "Gemini" (by which they mean Gemini Protocol)? How widely used is it? The naysayers don't want answers, they spread FUD.
Well, there are two elements here: readers and authors. There are many users of Gemini Protocol, many of whom read or lurk, not write (or only habitually post something in somebody else's capsule). Some capsules sort of emulate social control media, akin to Reddit.
It seems safe to assume all the authors are also readers, but not all readers are also authors.
Regarding size, there are two many limitations which merit a mention when it comes to assessing magnitude; one is the lack of a complete list of all capsules and another is crawling limits. Tux Machines and Techrights, for instance, contain about 10 times more pages that Lupa allows itself to index and thus count. So counts aren't complete, set aside the fact that crawling is never complete for a variety of other reasons (some pages are islands in the traversal sense).
Since we've already mentioned Lupa, consider the statistics published by Lupa 2 hours ago:
Consider crawling constraints and artificial limits. It seems fair to guess that it never sees or crawls half of all pages.
The search engine TLGS knows of less than 3,000 capsules that it crawls and it extracted from them close to half a million pages/objects:
Suppose TLGS does not fully crawl very large capsules and cannot find many pages in many capsules. Also bear in mind networking and computational limits. TLGS isn't some company, it is a personal project.
It seems safe to assume there are over a million working (functional) gemini:// objects out there and over 100,000 new ones every year. That's enough to keep anybody busy. █