Look at these sponsors! I wouldn’t use Ladybird in 1750 BC.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    56·
    4 months ago

    This is a silly take. It’s an open source project from a non profit creating a new browser option

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      8·
      4 months ago

      Agreed. I looked into this and it seems like an honest effort to try and prevent a total Chrome monopoly.

      A fresh browser is a massive project. Web standards are massive, and complex, and growing.

      It would be nice to see Firefox killing it, but they aren’t.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        there’s another non-fascist browser rendering project yknow, with less hype around it but just as promising imo

        and also it’s made in rust so you know it’s good

        • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
          5·
          4 months ago

          The very first text on that page:

          Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

          That’s not quite the same as a browser trying to support web standards.

          Though I do want to see servo succeed too.

          And why is ladybird fascist?

          • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            8·
            4 months ago

            devs are charlie kirk stans, and consider(ed, they seem to have changed course on this, good) gender neutral pronouns to be “too political”

            • Lumisal@lemmy.world
              5·
              4 months ago

              Great, find out they’re supposedly not against gender neutral pronouns, only to know hear they’re charlie Kirk stans. Source?

              • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                7·
                4 months ago

                admittedly “charlie kirk stan” was maybe not the best way to describe it (i got this from other people), he hasn’t posted much about him (other than to mourn his death lol), but

                Screenshot of a tweet by @awesomekling: In recent years I've attended multiple software conference talks that had unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as "fuck [name]" and "punch [group]". Whenever this happened, some of the audience would clap and cheer, I'd roll my eyes, and the talk would get back on topic. Fast-forward to today, and look at how many people in our industry are openly celebrating the murder of someone they decided was a "nazi" and "fascist". Turns out these people were more serious than I thought. As someone who's repeatedly been called a "nazi" and "fascist" myself for disagreements with far-left ideology, I know how easily those labels get thrown around. And honestly, this is making me seriously reconsider which conferences I attend. There's a hateful rot within our industry. It shouldn't be socially acceptable to cheer for murder. We need to do more than roll our eyes.

                apparently he thinks the software industry has a nazi-hating problem??? lmao

                i’m still wary of him. he doesn’t have a big thing to point to like DHH, but the way he speaks and the people he associates with (including, you guessed it, DHH) raises a ton of red flags

                • Lumisal@lemmy.world
                  6·
                  4 months ago

                  Yeah no, I’d rather stick with Firefox. We need another browser but not from a future fascist grifter.

    • explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      Yeah the other side of this is that there is mandatory 1 sponsor and it is Alphabet/Google

      Edit: read the list and noticed the primeagen is on there so I guess it must be evil

      • pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        4 months ago

        What did the primeagen do? Haven’t been keeping up with his stuff for a while. I remember he gave me American Christian conservative vibes but I’ve never heard him taking political stances (outside of the prevalent pro capitalism typical for the region)

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    4 months ago

    Non-browser companies I don’t like are sponsoring a browser engine alternative so they don’t all end up getting hosed by Google’s lock-in.

    As long as the end result is what I want I am alright with jerks I don’t like footing the bill if our separate self-interests are momentarily aligned.

    This is a wait-and-see for me.

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 months ago

    Content not viewable in your region.

    Could you provide an alternate link? Or maybe use the image button to upload it to your instance so it’s out of the control of some corporation?

    (Imgur deleted a bunch of content for the crime of not having a paid subscription, and they geoblock my country because the data protection commission threatened them with a fine for selling children’s browsing history and they’d rather take it out on users than simply filter the accounts they auto-tagged as children out of the data they were selling. We left reddit for a reason. Imgur is no less moneygrabbing.)