Comment by ☕️ hyperreal

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

Jul 18 · 5 months ago

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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...