Gemini Now 70 Capsules Short of 4,000 and Let's Encrypt Sinks Below 100 (Capsules) as Self-Signed Leaps to 91%
The "gopher with encryption" protocol is getting more widely used and more independent from GAFAM
Some minutes ago (yes, minutes, not hours) we've finally reached that long-awaited Lupa milestone:
One can see the historic trends in this graph (PNG over Gemini). In 2022 Let's Encrypt was measured at almost 15% of the whole, not it's just 3.5% and fast declining.
People who pursue real security and actual autonomy can value and appreciate the trend, as in a Google-dominated Web we'll never get there. Web browsers only become more and more stubborn over time. As Sompi put it moments ago in IRC: "it doesn't seem to be enough that the user trusts the certificate, instead the certificate must be trusted by big tech companies".
He had also said: "Mozilla and Google are pushing the though that everything must be "trusted", as in having a certificate that is trusted by them". █