Question for the more hardcore geminauts: how would you rate your web vs gemini usage nowadays? Do you still have an online presence on the “traditional” internet, or have you moved most of your stuff here?
1 month ago · 👍 zeerooth, bookscorpion, byzoni, fab, jo, edanosborne
Nowadays I spend less and less time online. Due to my job I need http, but outside my job I only use that protocol to watch movies once in a while, and the rest is gemini. But since I live in the countryside, I find myself enjoying the real world. · 1 month ago
Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply :)
As for myself: I've only recently discovered Gemini so definitely not a seasoned/hardcore user. Still, I'm trying to cut down on my digital footprint and reddit usage (the only traditional "social media" I'm still on), and the geminispace sure looks like a good place to interact in a more self-aware way with other people. · 1 month ago
I visit here regularly, but I have a mirrored presence. As a young adult and a student, living without the web is not just difficult: it's completely impractical; at least, at the moment. · 1 month ago
I visit here and BBS almost every day, to read the new threads. Way more often than Facebook or Twitter, which I have stopped even visiting. but, sadly, I still spend a lot of time on Reddit :(. And occasional videos on YouTube. I also follow a couple woodworking blogs.
As of now, from Gemini I have discovered the tildeverse (I have a couple of not often updated gemlogs, also punished via http and gopher), and I spend a lot of time reading the IRC chats (writing every now and then), and very recently discovering the newsgroups.
I could pretty much abandon the recreational http space, but I still need to use Google and the like for work... · 1 month ago
on the topic of "checking": i do check the weather every day over gemini, but generally i'm mostly gravitating to the same 3 capsules at all times which is a bit sad. i miss the new capsules page :^[ · 1 month ago
i'm mostly on the web. my main self-hosted presence on the internet used to be on gemini and gopher but i found a great community to discuss websites and such. I'm definitely mostly on the web but i check and upload to gemini anywhere from a few days a week to once a month I've always liked about it that it's not something i have to engage with all the time. my usage of gemini definitely dropped significantly when geminispace.info died, as it wasn't just my main search engine but i used to check the new capsules there every 3 days as well. If anyone knows of a search engine that also has a page of newly added capsule PLS share!! · 1 month ago
I think I'm no 'hardcore' geminaut and my capsule and Gopher Hole are both accessible over the web. I still use the web for some tasks very often. Especially searching for problem solutions on my Linux/FreeBSD systems, because most documentation is still only available on the web. I use Youtube on the terminal with ytfzf and I look for updates on Gemini once or twice a day. But I like to tinker around with my capsule a lot. · 1 month ago
I host both a web and gemini version of my capsule/website. · 1 month ago
I have a lot of web presence, mostly for fandom reasons, but I do check in here once a day at least · 1 month ago
I host both a web and gemini version of my capsule/website. On gemini I primarly read articles and have some discussions on BBS and station, but I just can't do without certain sites on the web - I guess the split is about 30/70 in favour of the web. · 1 month ago
I also don't know if I qualify as a hardcore. I sign on more than once per day to check in. I never had much of a social media presence on the web, not since the MySpace heyday, even then preferring pseudonyms over my real name. I have limited presences on both the web and the smolweb due to lack of time but not lack of interest. I'd say I use the web for research (professionally and as a hobby) as well as entertainment of the streaming video variety. For Gemini I've switched to it for news, weather, dice games, and community (eg here.) · 1 month ago
Not sure I'm a "hardcore" geminaut, but I use smol.pub to post to both the Web and Gemini simultaneously (and Gopher), and I've been using my smol.pub site a lot more than my Neocities account lately. I doubt I'll ever not have a Web presence, but I enjoy being able to do both. · 1 month ago
I would like to make a capsule some day and share some interesting thoughts, and maybe check out what a pubnix experience involves (what is finger? what is ttyter?), but I'm not sure which (if any) hosts would put up with me as a social conservative. So it's mostly lurking for me. · 1 month ago
idk if I qualify as a "hardcore" geminaut. But my discovery of gemini correlated with an intentional step back from the Web, particularly the habits and behaviors it cultivated. I'm here for "Neal Postman" reasons, not "degrowth doomer" reasons. Someone had good advice at that time (talking about switching from Win10 to FlOSS linux): "it's more than jumping ecosystems, it's changing habits and how you use these tools." Thus, I don't really have a "presence" analogous to the way I got (ab)used by social media, and I'm glad for it. · 1 month ago
I'm retreating from the web, especially social networks as active user.
I've moved lots of stuff here, but I do not update my gemlog regularly.
I've increased a lot the usage of personal spaces to write my own things without needing to publish them. · 1 month ago