Gemini is Blossoming and More Capsules Are Self-Signing, Rejecting the Defunct and Falsely-Marketed Certificate Authority (CA) Model
Gemini has been very busy lately (many new articles and even debates over Gemini). Our "Gemini Links" are a bit bulkier than usual this month (even on a Sunday!). Last week we saw some GNU/Linux- and/or Web-centric blogs speaking about Gemini, so maybe it helps explain why new people join... and traffic also went up quite a lot. Maybe that's just a coincidence though.
The total number of known capsules grew to 3,917 (almost 4,000 capsules now) and among active ones that Lupa is aware of only 107 still use Linux Foundation (Let's Encrypt) as "trust" - i.e. outsource verification/authentication to some cartel. To quote Lupa: "2521 (90.7 %) capsules are self-signed, 104 (3.7 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 154 (5.5 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)."
A week ago we said or expressed a wish that the number would go below 100 by the end of summer or by year's end. It now seems likely that this will happen by month's end. At 3.7% for Let's Encrypt it certainly looks like an exodus (maybe they were all clustered together in a shared host).
Gemini is still very fast, not only because objects are lightweight but the protocol itself - i.e. the underlying logic - is as simple as it needs to be and only as complex as it must be. No more verification by third parties.
