Google is the biggest of browser and http/s internet based protocol, so much bigger that everyone plays by googles rules. if they set out manifestv3 the other browsers that are not compatible will not work, and as a result people will abandon them.

Google gave up WEI, for now at least. They will try again later though. https://securityboulevard.com/2023/11/google-wei-is-dead-richixbw/

It’s because he just regurgitates all his takes from /g/ on 4chan.

because it’s easier to get around with a vpn, but if it’s at the software level it wouldn’t be as easy. They could make it so only France approved browsers could be downloaded.

with that price tag, I’m surprised more people aren’t copying that floppy.

Reddit is a lot of peoples only form of community, especially if it’s obscure interests. Without it your more or less trapped in your local area.

The transformation is complete we are officially better than reddit.

I think having the defaults set to global instead of local when searching will make it easier for new users to find communities and only show a few lemmy instances that are good to show for new users, the biggest complaint is that lemmy ( and all federated services ) are too complicated trying to find a instance.

Peertube, is a good alt, https://joinpeertube.org/en_US it works of bittorrent to save on bandwidth and federation is used to save storage space.

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It would be interesting if we could get people to consider alternatives like peertube as a livestreaming platform.

I think with federation gets more popular a lot of it may come back in a way.

I do miss it a little because they definitely had a culture that was unique, compared to sites like Twitter or Reddit.

It’s really different compared to a lot of forums in the early days where everyone use to say ‘lurk moar’

A lot of dipping my toes into the water atm. mostly all over the place.