Quit Perpetuating the Narrative of Gemini Protocol 'Dying' (It's False)
Earlier this week I cited a rebuttal to the claim of Gemini Protocol 'dying' (or similar words). Prior to that I had already responded, citing hard data, to such claims, which aren't exactly new; we see those claims every year and somehow Gemini Protocol keeps growing. More people use Gemini Protocol.
This past week we had more Gemini Protocol requests than in recent months; this year we see more Gemini Protocol traffic than in every prior year. So clearly many people "out there" use Gemini Protocol; whether they also host and serve pages over Gemini Protocol is another matter and Lupa suggests that more people (or domains) do.
Gemini Protocol, unlike Google "Gemini" (Bard rebranded), is something which benefits humanity. More people find its proposition appealing and alluring; some have begun reading Gemini pages; a small proportion has the technical skills required to set up a Gemini capsule.
The "whisper campaign" against Gemini Protocol is familiar to me. We saw the same with file-sharing protocols, which the media was quick to associate with violent crimes (like "piracy"). It basically lumped together P2P with bittorrents and all sorts of innocuous things, including Samba (or SMB). Blame plutocrats' (owned and controlled by them) media. It started promoting 'webapps' and 'apps' like Dropbox. That's not accidental. When someone did the same with "apps" or "webapps" and didn't work for the US government (e.g. "Mega" and "MegaUpload") the reaction was severe and shockingly drastic. From what we can gather, Kim Dotcom is in really bad shape now, not only economically. He's just about surviving:
His life - or what's left of it at this stage - remains a "warning sign" to anyone who might attempt the same, i.e. same as Julian Assange (when it comes to publishing leaks that could wind up embarrassing the US government).
There's an interesting similarity between what's happening to Gemini Protocol and file-sharing (as an alternative to "apps"). Google et al don't want anyone to know what the "real" Gemini is. Google is 'googlebombing' the term "Gemini".
"Microsoft killed file sharing," an associate recalls, "even the name".
"Now 'file sharing' means copyright infringement, not actual business use. That happened as Microsoft killed Novell's Netware with its whisper campaign and the courts backed up Microsoft in practice. Yes, Microsoft was found guilty, but the punishment was not only not monetary it was to write letters of apology to Novell's remaining customers, not the ones poached by Microsoft." █