Matt

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Just a guy who lives in Wigan, England - He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

Owner of the #PSP2i Wiki and an administrator of Ephinea #PSOBB.

I like #Cycling, #Linux, and #PhantasyStar.
PSP2i Wikihttps://psp2i.wiki/
Ephinea PSO BBhttps://ephinea.pioneer2.net/
Matrixmattswift:mozilla.org
Mastodonhttps://mastodon.social/@mattswift
MattAug 4, 2023
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶  Aug 4, 2023
ME: The Earth is 71% water
SCIENTIST: Yes. True.
ME: And practically all of that water is uncarbonated
SCIENTIST: Okay, sure. Not sure where you're going with this but
ME: So the Earth is flat
SCIENTIST...
ME: ...
SCIENTIST: Listen here you little shit
MattAug 4, 2023
Today in XAug 4, 2023

This doesn’t surprise me. You don’t own your handle.

It’s still a totally dickheaded move.

Show threadMattJul 31, 2023
@lowqualityfacts What's the difference between the options? The right way is Mash-too-own, no?
Show threadMattJul 30, 2023
@sub_o Yes but it doesn't seem to work right now, it would be under Explore, then Featured at the top, however I just get an error every single time.

It seems to be a firefish.social issue, as this works on other servers (for example, infosec.town).
Show threadMattJul 30, 2023
@nyquildotorg It's a weird predicament they're in, making a browser engine isn't easy, but being a FOSS project is not exactly known to pay the bills unless you commercialise in some way.

However I'd suspect that if they were to commercialise Firefox itself, it would lose a lot of respect from those that still use it, so what is Mozilla to do?

I'm aware they don't take donations for Firefox directly, but I don't think that would solve the issues either - browsers are expensive!
Show threadMattJul 30, 2023
@nyquildotorg Actually why did I write this, I see you're mostly talking about the funding aspect of Mozilla making Gecko, and without Google they're toast, which is probably true at this point.

I think I made a few assumptions because conversations around this usually turn around to "why is Mozilla trying to make money when they could just work on Firefox and this is why they don't have market share!!" and well, this is why, exactly like you say.
Show threadMattJul 30, 2023
@nyquildotorg While I'm following the argument, I don't actually believe that the development of Firefox has anything to do with why it has lower market share than Chrome.

I think the problem is that Firefox went up against Google more than anything that Firefox has or hasn't done.

Chrome got its market share in a few ways:

1. It was advertised incessantly on Google Search, the most visited website in the world.
2. To the vast, vast majority of people, Google is a good and trusted company.
3. It's the default browser on Android, and most people never switch from default.

While it was also a good browser on release on top of that, branding and advertisement power generally always wins in these situations, not the quality of the product. The product quality helps, but it's usually not the major reason market share grows, otherwise loads of better FOSS projects would have way higher market share than they currently do.

To add onto this, Google owns YouTube, the second most visited website in the world, and it's been well known that Chrome is the best way to browse that as Firefox had worse performance on it, at least for a little while (whether this was Firefox's fault or not, I don't know). In the event that WEI fully gets pushed through and realised, no amount of market share for Firefox is going to make people stay on Firefox, they will absolutely not give up access to YouTube considering what it offers.

Lastly, a lot of important websites don't work on Firefox. You can spoof UA, but how many people know how to do this in the big picture? Most people will just use something else instead.

I should probably thread these things, the 4,000 character limit of Firefish is addictive.
MattJul 30, 2023
@noellemitchell This one isn't too hard to understand:

1. Bluesky has more "large figures" (people like AOC and influencers)
2. Mastodon has a bad reputation for being "too hard" and "nerdy", whereas Bluesky is seen as "fun" and "exciting"

People don't care about the platform politics, only if it directly impacts their experience. Musk being the head of X is irrelevant, what made it matter is when he started changing things.

Nobody looks into who is running Fedi or Bluesky, just what they know about the platform and people on it, and right now it is absolutely in Bluesky's favour for first impressions.

Whether this will last once it starts to federate and become open is another story.
MattJul 30, 2023
David RevoyJul 30, 2023

Scary

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita
#twitter #x

MattJul 30, 2023
Me: Time to get off stuff with algorithms and start using more healthy social media.

Also me: *Spends all day on scrolling the Fediverse and doesn't do anything productive*