The Techrights capsule in June 2021 (screenshot taken moments ago)

Summary: The World Wide Web (or "the Web") is still dominating or commanding the lion's share of traffic, but we're trying to reduce our dependence on it; we encourage other sites to do the same

THE Internet has been around for many years (decades) and it's not going away any time soon. The Web? That's another question. It's a very important question.

"Gemini is here to stay. It definitely caught on, even if it's just a niche for now."The Web is ubiquitous -- it is very widely used. But we ought not assume that will always be the case. It's already associated with far too much complexity and overt surveillance. There are many other issues the Web became notorious for, but that's not the subject of this post.

Over the next few days (if not weeks) Techrights will expand even further in Gemini space, seeing that the gemini:// protocol has many users now (we're seeing thousands in our capsule). With 173,856 page requests so far this month (it rapidly grows as the months go by) it is rather clear that more people shun the World Wide Web and get their information another way.

Gemini is here to stay. It definitely caught on, even if it's just a niche for now. And sure, the Web is still vastly bigger, albeit stagnating somewhat (it has competition other than Gemini).

Earlier this month we patched the Gemini server for security reasons and we also rolled out a new certificate. Self-signed, of course... (we don't want "trust" monopolies and centralisation, do we?)

People need to rethink the way they use the Internet and what tools they use to access the Internet. ⬆

"Our products just aren't engineered for security."

--Brian Valentine, Microsoft executive

"Microsoft allowed us to [remove Internet Explorer from Windows] but we don't think we should have to ask permission every time we want to make some minor software modification. Windows is an operating system, not a religion."

--Gateway Computer Chairman Ted Waitt

"Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance."

--Paul Carvel

"Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the US Department of Defense."

--Richard Stallman

"The Internet? We are not interested in it."

--Bill Gates, 1993