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Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

75 points by rickcarlino 10mo ago

DonThomasitos 10mo ago
The web design of this blog is at the intersection of unusable and awesome
mentalgear 10mo ago
In case you are wondering, this is about the Gemini Protocol, not the LLM. "Gemini is an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to HTTP and Gopher." The protocol has no native embeds (not even images) so all you get is text, or media if you click links to the file directly (also no js, fingerprintin or ads). It's great if you look for a plain internet. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Gemini_(protocol) https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Gemini_(protocol)
- Xiol32 10mo ago
  I fail to see what the slopped site adds to the Wikipedia article for the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
  - observationist 10mo ago
    The slopped site significantly detracts from the wiki article. If you have an ad blocker active, a huge percentage of the page is just blank ad placeholders. Kind of impressive how bad that wikislop thing is.
  - giancarlostoro 10mo ago
    Wikiwand didnt have so many ads and was a nicer way to view wikipedia, especially before wikipedia added darkmode.
- napolux 10mo ago
  You will only hear about the Gemini protocol on HN.
  - rickcarlino 10mo ago
    It does get some coverage on Lobste.rs, the Fediverse and some pockets of the IRC world and retro comp community. If your point is that it has not hit mainstream adoption, I won’t argue that.
    - snvzz 10mo ago
      For retro comp, Spartan[0] a much better fit. No UTF-8 or SSL to worry about. 0. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/spartan.mozz.us/ https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/spartan.mozz.us/
jmclnx 10mo ago
Having moved my WEB site to Gemini a couple of years ago, I think Gemini is the easiest protocol to maintain. Plus FWIW, dillo has plugins for both Gemini and gopher on it site. So for people who prefer GUIs for browsing, dillo works great, even on the *BSDs https://dillo-browser.github.io/ https://dillo-browser.github.io/ There is a lot of nice content out on both Gemini and Gopher that many people are missing. Interesting that they did not include stats from sdf.org, I think that is up in the top 3 of number of capsules. gemini://gem.sdf.org/ gemini://sdf.org/
gerikson 10mo ago
I had a burst of interest in Gemini when it was "cool", but ultimately HTML scratches my publishing itch. The Lagrange browser is an impressive piece of software. Recommended.
agumonkey 10mo ago
is there any way to know what happened on the search engine / index on gemini ? I love frugal but when I tried castor (rust gui) I was just a bit too confused by the ergonomics (both of search and navigation). I'm pretty open minded (I use gnu ed .. so esoteric or different doesn't bother me) but it was too much of a regression compared what we're used through http clients.

75 points by rickcarlino 10mo ago

The web design of this blog is at the intersection of unusable and awesome

In case you are wondering, this is about the Gemini Protocol, not the LLM. "Gemini is an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to HTTP and Gopher." The protocol has no native embeds (not even images) so all you get is text, or media if you click links to the file directly (also no js, fingerprintin or ads). It's great if you look for a plain internet. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Gemini_(protocol) https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Gemini_(protocol)

Xiol32 10mo ago
I fail to see what the slopped site adds to the Wikipedia article for the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
- observationist 10mo ago
  The slopped site significantly detracts from the wiki article. If you have an ad blocker active, a huge percentage of the page is just blank ad placeholders. Kind of impressive how bad that wikislop thing is.
- giancarlostoro 10mo ago
  Wikiwand didnt have so many ads and was a nicer way to view wikipedia, especially before wikipedia added darkmode.
napolux 10mo ago
You will only hear about the Gemini protocol on HN.
- rickcarlino 10mo ago
  It does get some coverage on Lobste.rs, the Fediverse and some pockets of the IRC world and retro comp community. If your point is that it has not hit mainstream adoption, I won’t argue that.
  - snvzz 10mo ago
    For retro comp, Spartan[0] a much better fit. No UTF-8 or SSL to worry about. 0. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/spartan.mozz.us/ https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/spartan.mozz.us/

jmclnx 10mo ago

Having moved my WEB site to Gemini a couple of years ago, I think Gemini is the easiest protocol to maintain. Plus FWIW, dillo has plugins for both Gemini and gopher on it site. So for people who prefer GUIs for browsing, dillo works great, even on the *BSDs https://dillo-browser.github.io/ https://dillo-browser.github.io/ There is a lot of nice content out on both Gemini and Gopher that many people are missing. Interesting that they did not include stats from sdf.org, I think that is up in the top 3 of number of capsules. gemini://gem.sdf.org/ gemini://sdf.org/

gerikson 10mo ago

I had a burst of interest in Gemini when it was "cool", but ultimately HTML scratches my publishing itch. The Lagrange browser is an impressive piece of software. Recommended.

agumonkey 10mo ago

is there any way to know what happened on the search engine / index on gemini ? I love frugal but when I tried castor (rust gui) I was just a bit too confused by the ergonomics (both of search and navigation). I'm pretty open minded (I use gnu ed .. so esoteric or different doesn't bother me) but it was too much of a regression compared what we're used through http clients.