Re: four years of Gemini

On the official Gemini project newsfeed, our dear leader Solderpunk writes:

> Today is the fourth anniversary of the public announcement of Project Gemini.

2023-06-20 - Four years of Gemini!

He goes on to lament not being more active, but notes that he's getting back into the space and hopes to build up momentum for some slow and steady progress.

I know how he feels! I've let Gemini Quickstart decay over the last two years, while the hosting and client landscape has changed all around us. The Android client I recommend on the site hasn't been available for over a year, and there are several new ones, including the Lagrange port, which is probably the most popular Android client right now. I don't have any idea what things look like over in iOS and MacOS land these days. There's no mention of Antenna, Station, Newswaffle, or Bubble, or anything else that's appeared since then. I've started doing a little work on it just to get it ready for making all of the changes it needs, but I've got to say, it's hard out here these days! I have tremendous respect and substantial envy for anyone who's able to keep up with their side projects.

In the meantime, Germinal hasn't been touched in over a year, and that's /fine/, actually. I don't consider it stagnated so much as /finished/. Any features it lacks can be added through either the middleware or route handler interfaces. It's getting close to four years for Germinal, too — the first commit will be four years old in three days, though it won't have four years of being a working Gemini server for another two after that.

Four more years! Four more years!