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Summary: The excitement associated with Gemini (as in the lighter alternative to the bloated and monopolies-dominated Web) is very much justified; we continue to invest a lot of time and effort in Gemini
Gemini Protocol isn't old and isn't so new either. It tackles some of the biggest issues with the World Wide Web, including bloat, security, suitability for residential connections, and centralisation/monopolisation (further exacerbated by the certificates/CA treadmill, which seems more like a pyramid scheme of "trust").
gemini:// from plain text to GemText [1, 2, 3]. This task is now complete. Over the coming 10 days or so we'll significantly increase publication pace and deliver some important exclusives, with focus on the EPO.
"In the first 10 days of December we served close to a quarter million pages over gemini:// and each month the numbers go higher."The video above demonstrates and explains some of the many benefits of embracing Gemini, either as a reader or author. With the growing levels of disinformation on the Web (or decreased signal/spam ratio) it's important to build a true alternative, both to HTTP/S and to HTML (which nowadays mostly incorporates a bunch of CSS files and bloated JavaScript frameworks, sometimes even proprietary fonts).
Everything starts small. Gemini space is no longer small. It's a fast-growing 'cyber-space' in terms of the number of pages, number of authors, number of software projects, and amount of traffic. In the first 10 days of December we served close to a quarter million pages over gemini:// and each month the numbers go higher. ⬆