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[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 hours ago

Just installed it on void. Still not quite usable for daily use but it's not bad.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Once Servo is finished, we might have a browser rennaisance (I hope)

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

That would be nice. I know lately I've been playing around with gopher sites with command line browsers. It's been fun seeing what others have made.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

same slogan everywhere, plant pictures for a strong greenwashing aesthetics, old white men smiling reassuringly. 5/7 homepage.

[–] kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The main issue I have right now: the jurisdiction of this is in the US, and to be honest, I don’t trust the US that much when it comes to privacy laws regarding the (near) future.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

the EU wants backdoors to encryptions, so eu not any better.

[–] kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 hours ago

It certainly is the lesser evil though.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

what r they gonna do if it's open source and doesn't collect data. worry more about ur OS

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure my Debian doesn't collect personal data either

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Ask Mozilla

[–] kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 hours ago

I’m not naive enough anymore for this kind of trust.

[–] troed@fedia.io 339 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Join our Discord server

crying in decentralization efforts

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 184 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hell, even worse, crying in the lost information. Discord is a black hole where community knowledge goes to die.

It's the worst.

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The Discord-based "support" makes it a "meh." The main devs alt-right BS makes it a "hard pass."

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

Lemmy was created by a tankie, many of whose opinions I abhor.

As long as it's FOSS and doesn't inherently promote their beliefs, I will use the software.

I agree it's not great and I'd prefer if it weren't made by imbeciles

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[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

I donate to Ladybird and Servo, and I hope they succeed. We need serious competition and a check on Mozilla (not to mention Chrome and Safari).

That said, I'm sad that neither Ladybird or Servo are licensed under strong copyleft licenses. We need user-oriented browsers now more than ever, and strong copyleft enables that. I worry that, even if these engines are successful, they will be co-opted by proprietary browsers and eventually superseded by them.

This happened before - both Chrome and Safari ultimately derive from KHTML, Konqueror's browser engine. If KHTML had been licnesed under the GPL instead of the LGPL, Chrome and Safari (and not just their engines) may have been free software today. Or, at the very least, it would have been much more difficult for Apple and Google to get started.

That said, I wish Ladybird the best. There donation = no influence policy is excellent, and I really, really hope they can stick to it in the long term.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No.

If khtml had been GPL, it simply never would have been used for chrome or safari, some other engine would have been picked.

Anything but real open source for these types of companies

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[–] the_q@lemm.ee 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To go along with the alt right stuff, one of their major donors is Shopify.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] the_q@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Shopify willingly hosted and sold Kanye's swastika shirt.

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