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Can't really tell. I've encounterd it two or three times a couple of months apart, until I tried it in earnest. Likely via Hundred Rabbits, which I knew from sailing/minimalism YouTube, and solar.lowtechmagazine.com.
At the time, I had a don't-install-any-new-apps phase, and the "showcase" pages on gemini.circumlunar.space always ended up on doorway pages, which want to encourage you to try the protocol, which obviously won't work without a new app. And the mentioned Gemin2Web proxies somehow were also a dead end.
2023-05-26 · 1 year ago
🐐 satch · 2023-05-26 at 23:44:
Summer of 2021, HN --> https://lab6.com brought me to the tildeverse
Then issue 2, which came out shortly after, introduced me to Gemini:
☕️ mozz · 2023-05-27 at 00:27:
I discovered gopher in 2017 through a post on hacker news. I just thought it was so cool that there was this alternate network protocol completely separate from the WWW, and it was actually still alive and being used by people. Then I came to gemini through gopher.
🚀 mbays · 2023-05-27 at 12:56:
Via sdf's bboard, in 2020. Read the spec and was intrigued, and since it was Covid lockdown I took up the challenge in the claim that writing a client should be a weekend project, and was soon exploring the few gemini servers around back then in my own client (which I'm still using now!). Good times.
just browsing flathub.org and found lagrange
How I Found Gemini — Linked is the story of how I got here. I'd be interested to hear other stories if people want to share!