Aral BalkanJun 20, 2023

It’s very interesting to see who in the fediverse is falling in line behind Silicon Valley and Big Tech and who is not.

And no, we can’t all just get along.

Big Tech is the antithesis of the cooperative and humanitarian values of federation and decentralisation. You can either be an apologist for surveillance capitalists or support the nascent ethical alternatives to their toxic business model that’s detrimental to human rights and democracy.

Pick a side. History will remember your choice.

Show threadCatweazle
@aral, I'm using a Browser from an European cooperative since 7 Years, which also put this Mastodon instance for it's users.
Jun 20, 2023 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadAral BalkanJun 20, 2023
@Catweazle Hmm, I hadn’t realised Vivaldi was owned by its employees. That’s definitely a huge plus. I just really wish they were also open source.
Show threadCatweazleJun 20, 2023
@aral, this is also an internal debate, but in the first line Vivaldi is OpenSource, but not in the "traditional" sense. The code is fully accessible and auditable, in the community they even teach how the user can modify it. It is not closed source, just that 5% of the script with respect to its UI is licensed as proprietary to prevent Google and MS from getting their hands on it, with which they would definitely monopolize the browser market.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/10549/modding-vivaldi
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