• Chemical Wonka
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      11 months ago

      If and only “if” this split occur. Unfortunately only few tech conscious people about the importance of free internet as a whole and privacy will adhere to it. Will not be a big movement to harm the core of the big tech.

      • @wewbull@feddit.uk
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        111 months ago

        There is no split if chrome works on everything and Firefox works on half of stuff.

        Firefox just gets labelled as broken.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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        -111 months ago

        My perspective on this is that it’s about sustainability as opposed to trying to compete with big tech in a zero sum game. For example, Mastodon or Lemmy aren’t able to compete with commercial platforms in terms of users, but that doesn’t mean they’re not viable communities. I can see a future where there’s a niche open internet that exists independently of the commercial one and I think that would be fine. As long as there are enough people to do development on platforms and browsers and to produce content, that’s all that really matters. In fact, a split might even be better because then we wouldn’t have companies interfering with how the network operates.