Comment by ☕️ hyperreal

I don't think it's dying, but it's not exactly thriving. There was a peak and now it seems to be plateauing. I'm just guessing really. My guess is based only on what I've been seeing on the Antenna feed -- seems to be roughly about the same people posting.

Jul 16 · 5 months ago

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Well, things have changed since I joined, which is about a year and a half ago. A few big and well-loved sites have shut down, like konpeito, geminispace.info, spam.works, medusae.space, and others, and that does feel like a significant loss for the community. Others have stepped in and there is a lot of new content that may not quite match what was there before, but it is there. The biggest issue with that, I feel, is that a lot of people either don't post frequently or don't advertise or engage with others freequently on the social parts of Geminispace, so what they post may not get noticed. Dunno.

I don't know that Antenna is a good metric since it depends on people building things to work with Antenna and telling Antenna to use it.

I know I've never used it and don't use RSS in anything I make.

You're right. It's not a good metric. There's way more to geminispace than one can see on Antenna.

I've just stumbled upon gemini recently if anyone is interested in the thoughts of a new user. I don't know what the activity level used to be like. I definitely see a lot of dead links. But dead links exist even on the web. I think for the kind of project Gemini is aiming to be, it doesn't need to have speedy growth. I know I'd rather browse though a slower feed of interesting content than a flood of spam and reposts and hype. I really like the experience I've had with Gemini so far. I hope to put up my own capsule at some point, but it might take me a while. In the mean time I'm slowly exploring what's already here. I plan on sticking around.

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Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated — I've seen posts here and there talking about how Gemini and Geminispace is dying, and I dunno, I have seen some capsules go offline but there's still a fair bit of activity. Of course, I tend to check places like BBS, tootik and Midnight.pub which are more social places, I have individual gemlogs in my feeds that I check, and I have some favourite games on Gemini that I come back to. Some capsules are gone, but plenty of them are still around. I...