@ploum@mamot.fr Fellow geminaut here! "We really need a simple Gemini hosting provider that would also provide a Web version" - isn't there already one, GemCities? https://www.gemcities.com As for the news, there's a service on Gemini that offers access to basically anything from Al Jazeera and The Guardian to Hacker News and Lobsters. Through it I discovered an interesting publication called Low-Tech Magazine... There's even an ActivityPub software for Gemini that can federate with the WWW-based fediverse, Tootik, but no one's running a public instance right now - I was going to, but postponed it until I'm done with my more essential self-hosting operations, such as converting my VPS from Linux to OpenBSD! As a niche writer, I never bothered with popularity contests! Besides bots, there seem to be actual people sometimes reading even my gopherhole.