I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it's significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we're all hauling 64+ GB or something.
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Never have, never will.
So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".
Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.
Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.
Isn't it, though? Isn't this how the USA has treated most countries smaller than it? Less wealthy than it? Less white than it?
Growing up outside of the US, this behaviour seems completely in line with how the country has always behaved on the international stage, just pointed at one of the "good" countries.
Trump is the average Murica, Fuck Yeah type that we meet online all of the time, and have for the past 30+ years. He's the Yankee tourist that comes into our towns and expects us to accept their foreign currency, weather their patronizing questions, and cater to their idiosyncratic demands.
Trump doesn't seem like a surprise to us. He seems like the natural outcome of a country that has tooted its own horn on the world stage for 80 years, that has glorified its military and its military might, that has waved the phrase "American Exceptionalism" at its own population without irony, and that long mythologized its history. Remember, fascism was popular in the US 90 years ago. The only problem y'all had with the Nazis was that they were German. I mean, if you use Ur-Fascism as a checklist, the USA checks off most of the boxes on a good year.
You might not be cognizant of that, but many of us living outside your borders very much are.
I don't like what I see in the mirror most days, either. But I don't get to deny the grey hairs and aging face. I sure as hell don't go out in public shouting to the world "I'm not getting old; this greying, overweight man isn't me!"
Niching down is only required, or even desirable, once there's a critical mass of users cross-talking in a general space. Canada -> Canadian Media -> Canadian TV -> CBC Television -> CBC News -> whatever can be created as the discussions become too much for the more general bucket.
Do you remember forum culture? Where, if you joined a forum and were a giant pain in the ass, they kicked you out?
Large, monolithic social media sites like Facebook and Reddit got away from some of that, just because they're too big to police. But the fediverse isn't. Not yet, anyway. Bad neighbours are defederated from, and bad actors are banned.
Don't be a giant pain in the ass if you don't want to be shown the door. Or go back to spaces that are too big to GAF about you.
Yes, perhaps. But I suspect that still distracts from the fact that we're trying to sell an illusion with the fediverse, and I personally believe that that is a mistake. So many issues people voice about their experience here come from the design of everything emulating Big Social, and Big Social is centralized.
Aping the design language of centralized social media and then trying to get anyone other than enthusiasts on board is never going to work.
One of the ways we do this is by referring to "Mastodon" and "Lemmy" as if they are places you can go to, websites you can use. This is why I chose phpBB as my reference point. I've used WordPress and Joomla in the past, with less impact. We don't and have never spoken about phpBB as a singular location. You would respond to someone suggesting you "use phpBB" with, at the very least, a confused look. Or, if you didn't know what it is, you'd ask them "what is that?" and they'd tell you "forum software", revealing that their request of you was absurd. "Get an email address" is, at the very least, something that isn't a nonsensical request. Websites demand it of us all of the time.
you're not going to live to tell this tale
You say that as if that isn't exactly the goal. The useful idiot is handing the world to Putin, at least in Putin's mind
Mastodon servers are separate entities, too. The fact that they communicate with each other doesn't change that, and the persistent desire that folks here have to imagine otherwise is a hurdle to adoption.
The mental model is of a central space that instances grant or bar access to, but that's simply not how the technology actually works. Too much effort has gone into trying to make ActivityPub-enabled websites look like something they're not (centralized social media), while totally ignoring what they are: small forums and microblogs that have optional access to other forums and microblogs.
Mastodon is web server software. "Mastodon" doesn't exist. It's an illusion. And the fact that everyone keeps trying to sell this illusion is exactly why there are all of these broken expectations and hurdles.
I think you wildly misunderstand the average person's motivations and how they weigh decisions.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Public figures tend to not know how things work, and politicians tend to be optimistic about things that big businesses are spending a lot of money on.
AI sounds great in an elevator pitch, and that's all most politicians and execuitive-level business folks are working with. And they're all very susceptible to "everyone else is doing it" type arguments.
The server selection problem goes away if people stop treating their hosting website as an after thought or dumb terminal. People really have to stop promoting web server software as if it's a platform, and start finding reasons to recommend actual websites to people.
Ain't nobody ever recommended phpBB to anyone who wasn't looking to host a forum.
They've been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we're "allowed" to tell them to eat shit?