In a manner of speaking. But basically it was Firefox’s great great grandpa.

I was a die hard Firefox fan since it was Netscape navigator. But their refusal to adopt PWAs will always keep me one foot in edge/chrome.

I’ve been flirting a bit with Opera GX because of the sidebar, hard ram/cpu limits, and “my flow” feature. super handy when you’re moving between max and windows all day. But it also doesn’t do PWAs so that’s still super annoying.

On Mac I really do like safari. But they don’t have it for windows so I guess I’m just doomed to use multiple browsers.

In and out is nasty anyway. I dont get why they are still in business and people seem to like it. Far worse than arbys even imho

I would also contend that it’s good for creating more content for people to consume. Lemmy desperately needs more content to be able to provide a compelling experience for most people to put up with the cumbersome nature and awkward aspects of the fediverse.

I agree. But not everyone on that app are people who share greedy and hurtful ideas. Thats just extreme generalization imho.

I don’t understand this logic. Don’t we want Lemmy to be more mainstream and user friendly? Preemptively blocking any mainstream attempt to connect and bring in more users just sounds slightly petulant to me. Like I get meta = shitty company but I don’t get why we shouldn’t encourage more people joining the fediverse. And getting external help in growing it. And threads was the first mainstream olive branch that showed Lemmy, Kbin, and mastodon has legitimacy worth building infrastructure to join.

Idk blocking other people categorically from connecting just seems antithetical to the idea that it should be a decentralized system free to all to join.

But I’m new here, so maybe Im mistaken on the ethos of Lemmy.

Ahh yes. The Automatic Tip Machine.

I wish it was as easy as it was when we were kids and on the playground. You would just show someone your sweet dinosaur toy and ask them to play with you and boom friends for life. Or until mom got tired of sitting in the bench. Whichever happened first.

Oh hey it’s that rude guy again lol. I recognize your name. Are you just going from post to post trying to be as toxic as possible?

It sounds very similar to when I was in seminary. They literally had classes on how to manipulate your audience. How to “use vocal patterns and body language to make yourself appear more sincere.”

People severely underestimate how many shitty people there are in this world (and even those who appear trustworthy) that would eat your firstborn to increase their net worth if it wasn’t illegal.

I think it’s more that people who tend to be billionaires tend to also be kinda scummy people.

I would have paid for spez protection. But it wasn’t available so I came to Lemmy lol

Oh shit was I the ad the whole time??

Lmao

hmm...that seems super counterintuitive to what I thought the fediverse was all about. That would be like Gmail just deciding all Yahoo emails are spam. doesn't this mean that Lemmy will just be a bunch of islands of content that will require users to have multiple accounts for each instance?

as someone who just joined, and is still trying to understand "federated" can someone give me an ELI5 rundown of what this means? I thought it didn't matter which instance you joined because they were all connected, does this mean that other instances can just... block an entire instance?