arcanesciences

Afaik Gemini has considerably more active use than Gopher does at this point (I use both)

Really, now? Since when is anyone being "forced to conform"? It's an alternative protocol stack that people can use if they want. I don't see anyone saying "you have to use Gemini, or else" - but I do see people attacking it for being its own thing, rather than part of the web.