Gemini Protocol Will Turn 10, It Might Even Outlive Google's Fake 'Gemini' (Bard) That's Way Too Expensive to Run
WE are fast approaching November (our anniversary) and we eagerly look forward to next year. We have a number of things coming next year and in 2026 (when we turn 20). One thing we've noticed is that Gemini Protocol - not Google's 'fake' - gained momentum earlier this year (more so than it had done last year) and it seems like activity grew there, not only as measured in terms like number of new articles but also traffic. Some of that is bot traffic*, but that's nothing new (not a new problem; we wrote about it before).
Next summer Gemini Protocol turns 6 and in 2029 it'll turn 10. We're quite certain it'll get to 10 because many capsules use it and as long as Gemini Protocol is used anywhere on the Net, it is alive.
In our experience, Geminispace and IPFS have effectively served as excellent anti-censorship mechanisms, for reasons we can better explain in the future. Silencing the truth is hard, changing reality is even harder, and gaslighting the whole world is impossible (it never lasts very long; there's backlash building up).
Richard Stallman (RMS) just gave his talk in Peru (hours ago), it is the first of several talks there (in Spanish). He's spreading the word of Software Freedom. Nobody can stop RMS. █
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* In the past 3 days we served around 180,000 Gemini requests, but many came from bots.