The Web is Slop and FUD, Let's Go to Gemini Protocol
Yesterday we mentioned Gemini Protocol's anniversary thrice (plus another time in the sister site, hence 4 times). Its founder said growth was not that goal, but that it was growing anyway. In the past 5 days we served over a million Gemini requests in this site's capsule alone and today, for the first time, Lupa sees self-signed capsules at 92.4% as "the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt" fell to only 8 capsules - an all-time low (we check this every day). This Linux Foundation thing falling down to 8 for the first time signals Gemini Protocol's further distancing from corporate control. Yesterday it was 9 (as it had been for many weeks), now it's 8.
It seems both timely and appropriate to bring up Jono Alderson's newest article, "JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)".
The issue with the Web isn't just technical (bloat, outsourced "trust" etc.) as there's a lot more; the technical side is bad, but even worse things have since then emerged. Consider slopfarms. Consider the latest from Linuxsecurity. Second example in the same week where an issue in GitHub (proprietary, Microsoft) gets painted as an "open source" problem:
It's not even a real article, it's slop.
SEO spam made with LLM slop: (same day)
And another slopfarm, once again associating "Linux" with a problem that has nothing to do with Linux.
Google News keeps sending traffic to this slopfarm. Today's Web is risky because Web surfers risk reading a lot of pure garbage spewed out by some machine without any comprehension of what's bring spewed out and whether it's correct.
Geminispace does not (yet) have this problem.
We continue to welcome people to our Gemini capsule, which will turn 5 this winter. █