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● 12.10.21

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●● Our Growing Embrace of Gemini Protocol

Posted in Site News at 12:10 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: The excitement associated with Gemini (as in the lighter alternative to the bloated and monopolies-dominated Web) is very much justified; we continue to invest a lot of time and effort in Gemini

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Gemini Protocol isn’t old and isn’t so new either. It tackles some of the biggest issues with the World Wide Web, including bloat, security, suitability for residential connections, and centralisation/monopolisation (further exacerbated by the certificates/CA treadmill, which seems more like a pyramid scheme of “trust”).

Last night we put the final touches, concluding a 5-day effort to convert all the IRC logs in gemini:// from plain text to GemText [1, 2, 3]. This task is now complete. Over the coming 10 days or so we’ll significantly increase publication pace and deliver some important exclusives, with focus on the EPO.

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“In the first 10 days of December we served close to a quarter million pages over gemini:// and each month the numbers go higher.”

The video above demonstrates and explains some of the many benefits of embracing Gemini, either as a reader or author. With the growing levels of disinformation on the Web (or decreased signal/spam ratio) it’s important to build a true alternative, both to HTTP/S and to HTML (which nowadays mostly incorporates a bunch of CSS files and bloated JavaScript frameworks, sometimes even proprietary fonts).

Everything starts small. Gemini space is no longer small. It’s a fast-growing ‘cyber-space’ in terms of the number of pages, number of authors, number of software projects, and amount of traffic. In the first 10 days of December we served close to a quarter million pages over gemini:// and each month the numbers go higher. █

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