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🚀️ Find new and familiar apps

Gemini is more limited than the WWW content on the Big Internet. Despite this, you can find both useful and fun interactive sites on Gemini too.

🔍️ Search

Gemini capsules aren't indexed by Google or Bing. Instead, there are search engines built specifically for the Geminispace. Here is one that you can use:

Geminispace.info search engine

🗣️ Social networks

While light on interactions, Geminispace still has sites that facilitate social interaction. They range from comment based forums to Twitter-like microblogging sites. Here are examples of both:

The Midnight Pub; site for blogging, reading and commenting

Station; microblogging social network

🎲️ Games

Games written for Gemini tend to mix writing and interactivity. There are a few choose your own adventure style examples out there. Some of them include social components as well. If like that sort of thing, here are a few:

Astrobotany; gardening meets tamagotchi

Ijiraq; a multiplayer text adventure

🎭️ Mirrors

There are Gemini mirrors of some popular WWW Internet sites. These capsules allow you to access content usually associated with the Big Internet over Gemini. This way you get benefits like lightweight textual interface, no tracking etc. Here are some popular options:

Wikipedia mirror

Reddit mirror

Hacker news

List of other mirrors

🛠️ Interactive utilities

Lastly, there are some applications built specifically for the Gemini protocol. They usually offer highly focused utility, and are limited by short (one line) input that Gemini supports. Nonetheless, it can be nice to have them available inside the Geminispace, saving you the need to switch context. Here are a couple of such apps:

English dictionary

Weather service

Unit converters and encoders

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