Simpler is Better
GNU/Linux is growing (it's Windows moving down). Interest in it is also growing. The sister site attracts a lot of visitors and so do we. In Gemini Protocol, since Monday we've served 382,177 requests and we're ranked high for number of pages today:
Notice how the number of capsules is about to exceed 4,500. Three months ago it was 4,400.
Gemini Protocol is nice and simple. It helps us reach people who reject the bloated Web and instead focus on text.
To read our capsule over Gemini Protocol go get a client. There are some new ones out there. The current list is:
A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Python
A bare-bones but usable Gemini client in 100 lines of Lua
A bare-bones but usable Gemini client almost 100 lines of Go
A Gemini client library in Guile Scheme
A more recent fork of the above library
A rich Gemini client library in Nim
Agregore, a "distributed web" browser supporting Gemini
Alhena, a full-featured, multi-platform Gemini and Spartan browser
Amfora, a very feature-rich Gemini client for the terminal
AmiGemini, a Gemini client for the Commodore Amiga
Ariane, a Gemini client for Android
Astro, a Gemini client written in shell script
Astronaut, a terminal Gemini client written in Go
Asuka, a ncurses-based Gemini client
AV-98, an experimental Gemini client derived from VF-1
Bollux, a Gemini client written in pure Bash
Bombadillo, a multi-protocol client handling Gemini since 2.0.0
Castor, A graphical Gemini client written in Rust
Cgmnlm, a colorful fork of gmni
Chawan, a text-mode multi-protocol client written in Nim
Cozy, a client for Gemini and other smol protocols, written in Go
Deedum, a Gemini client for Android
Diohsc, a terminal Gemini client written in Haskell
Dragonstone, a simple GTK Gopher/Gemini client written in Vala
Elaho, a Gemini client for iOS
elpher, a emacs-based Gopher and Gemini client
Fafi, a graphical, tabbed client written in Racket
felinks, a fork of the `elinks` web browser which supports Gemini and Gopher
gacme, a Gemini client for plan9's Acme
gcat, a `cat`-like Gemini client
Gemget, a command-line Gemini downloader ala wget
GemiNaut, a user-friendly GUI client for MS Windows
gemini.koplugin, a Gemini client implemented as a KOReader plugin
Geopard, a client written in rust, using the gtk3 toolkit
Gmi, a client written in POSIX-compliant shell
gmi100, a CLI client written in 100 lines of ANSI C
gurl, a `curl`-like Gemini client
Gusmobile, a Gemini client library in Python
gmni, a combined CLI and line-mode client for POSIX/C11
Kristall, a graphical Gemini client using Qt
Lagrange, a beautiful graphical Gemini client written in C
majc, a curses client for Gemini written in Rust
masha, a simple and fast TUI Gemini client in plain C
McRoss, a graphical Gemini client written in Python/Tkinter
Moonlander, a very fancy graphical Gemini client written in Rust
ncgopher, a Gopher and Gemini client written in Rust
Natto, a suite of austere Gemini tools, including clients, in Go for OpenBSD
Offpunk, an offline-first command line client for Gemini and other protocols
Rhapsode, an "auditory web browser" which supports Gemini
Rosy Crow, a Gemini client for Android
Ruhroh, a Gemini client written as a POSIX shell script
Spwash, a bare-bones Gemini client written in C#
Sydney, a Vim-like command-line Gemini client
tgmi, a terminal-based Gemini client for linux written in Python
Twin Peaks, a graphical Gemini client written in C#
Tinmop, a distraction free terminal client for Gemini (and Pleroma!)
Vgmi, a terminal Gemini client written in C with vim-like keybindings
Vimini, a Gemini client inspired by qutebrowser
Viv, a "toy" Gemini client written in ANSI C
Zain, a graphical Gemini client written in Tcl/Tk
There's also gplaces as covered by Steve Emms a few days ago.
Gemini Protocol turns 6 in exactly 4 weeks.
With Mozilla down to its knees the Web will just be Chrom*, so we need to leave the Web to some extent. █