Even a little more when one adds the list from geminispace.info



Summary: Assuming that Lupa reduced its crawling capacity (this graph seems to confirm this), we've decided to aggregate data from 3 sources and assess the size of Geminispace; Lupa says it can see 1,947 active capsules, but there are many more it has not kept track of

Knowing that Lupa slowed down a bit, I've taken the latest list of known hosts from Totally Legit Gemini Search (TLGS) and combined it with the list Lupa holds.

I've fused together the two lists (concatenation), sorting and removing trailing slashes along with protocol to make the format consistent, then:

working-capsules.txt | uniq | wc -l

2510

The uploaded list is the raw one, the combined one is possible to derive as above.

geminispace.info has a less consistent format, so one must compare only the first element in each line. For a combined_list we have:

cat combined_list | sort | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq | wc -l

There are other ways to do this, but the total is similar: 2534

Lupa counts also inactive (historic) capsules, putting the tally at around 2,500. But that misses a lot of active capsules which have not been detected by Lupa (yet). Some got submitted to the search engines. They may be "islands"... for now. ⬆