Captain Beyond
Caretaker of DS8.ZONE. Free (Libre) Software enthusiast and promoter. Pronouns: any
Also /u/CaptainBeyondDS8 on reddit and CaptainBeyond on libera.chat.
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We live in a timeline where desktop apps all run in a browser, whereas mobile websites are all their own apps.
6·1 year agoThey can, but their very existence increases the Chromium engine’s market share and therefore Google’s control of the web, allowing them to do stuff like this. Once this is implemented in Chrome then these browsers will just become “Chrome but it can’t play netflix/access bank websites/etc” or whatever.
Makes me sad that the third-party client(!), Ripcord, is more or less abandonware
If this were free software, someone would probably have already picked it up and continued development of it.
5·1 year agoFrom my 0.17 instance it looks like the situation has improved.
This post from 2 days ago has 90 comments, but only 38 on my instance. Other posts from around that time period are missing dozens of comments on my instance too.
Meanwhile this post from today has 48 comments, and also 48 on my instance.
On some posts some comments are still not showing, for example this one with 88 comments only shows 84 on my instance, but it’s not missing dozens like the older posts.
Vivaldi’s target audience is people who don’t mind proprietary blobs as long as they are “good” or make things “work better.” Given that Vivaldi is essentially a proprietary blob combined with a Chromium backend this makes sense.