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Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google's the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project's inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that's almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.
[...] To the average Chromium user, this doesn't sound like much of a problem. In fact, you might even assume it doesn't apply to you. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @06:18PM (9 children)
Parent said:
"You can still create your own website, completely independent of Google or Facebook or Cloudflare or AWS. No one is stopping you. You can also create your own social network..."
Have you been asleep the last couple of years?
The ruling class shut down Gab a few years back and Parler some months ago because they were new competitor social media websites to our current social oligarchy. They also attack competitors at the DNS level and the financial level: pressure domain name registrars to drop your domain and for payment processors to drop you or not take your business irrespective of your creditworthiness.
Gab is back because they got canceled before and understand what they are up against. They are going old school with their own hosting and everything. DNS registrars and credit card companies though really should not be allowed to discriminate based on political basis. That's common infrastructure and economic access that in a free country is accessible to everyone.
Of course a success story like Gab's against political suppression is not to be tolerated and now the ruling class is bringing out the big guns, the government, to threaten Gab with shutdown for any legal excuse they can concoct. This is why the CEO of Gab says illegal activity will not be tolerated and he cooperates with police in shutting it down. Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter, sites that enabled organizing of riots and out of control protests, child porn, and child trafficking face no calls to be disbanded. The ruling class owes them as partners in power.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @08:05PM (5 children)
But why don't Gab and Parler federate with the fediverse?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @10:15PM (4 children)
Gab tried, most of it banned them. Being free speech extremists and super tolerant folk, it was the only option. Then Gab realized Mastodon was rubbish and killed federation so they could excise the mastodon code and replace it with something that can scale to keep up with their explosive growth. Twitter's banhammer is the best thing that ever happened to Gab.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @03:17AM (1 child)
Mastodon has a surprisingly high portion of trans people, so when Gab started setting up their own Mastodon instances and connecting with the existing community, it did not go well. I don't blame site admins for blocking servers with a user base spamming 10% of their own users with death threats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @07:40PM
oh bs. the trannys and neo bolsheviks were wanting to block gab as soon as they heard gab was getting on the fediverse. they are authoritarian, censorious retards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @12:47PM (1 child)
I thought it was the other way around. Gab blocked freespeechextremist.com which is still well and alive on the fediverse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 29 2021, @05:00AM
They didn't want to lose their members to the competition. But they like to keep pretending that Gab is the only one that is being treated that way, it fits their narrative better. Then again, its not like hypocrisy was invented yesterday.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @08:38PM (2 children)
"The ruling class shut down Gab a few years back and Parler some months ago because they were new competitor social media websites to our current social oligarchy. They also attack competitors at the DNS level and the financial level: pressure domain name registrars to drop your domain and for payment processors to drop you or not take your business irrespective of your creditworthiness."
and? quit using and supporting centralized, controlled shit. Is everything perfect and finished? no, but that doesn't mean people can't use what's available. host you own sites, or use p2p software or build new stuff. stuff like handshake for dns and monero (and other privacy coins) for currency. if you use the international criminal bankster cartels' "money" and host your shit on amazon, you're a dumb ass slave.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday January 28 2021, @02:28PM (1 child)
Doing this from a PC in your home is likely to either technically not work (because your home ISP applies carrier-grade NAT or otherwise blocks incoming TCP connections) or cause your home ISP to stop carrying your traffic in either direction (because the home plan's acceptable use policy bans publicly accessible servers). This can cause harm to people who live in an area where only one or two wired home ISPs offer service.
Doing this using your own domain name and a virtual private server (which doesn't have to be Amazon's) is called the IndieWeb route [indieweb.org]. Say I make articles and videos and host them on my own site. What steps should I go about taking to get my first dozen viewers now that I no longer have the recommendation engines of the big silos [indieweb.org] behind me? And now that RSS/Atom/h-feed readers are no longer widely used nor included with web browsers, how would I go about notifying viewers that a new article is available to read?
What steps should I go about taking to get prospective viewers to install software capable of viewing said "new stuff"?
How does one go about buying Monero, or buying home Internet access with Monero, other than by exchanging "the international criminal bankster cartels' 'money'"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @07:46PM
i don't have time for all these reasonable questions! :)
1). yes, you would generally require a commercial internet connection or self host in a mom and pop-ish datacenter.
2). manual web/traditional marketing and self-built and run mailing lists.
3) marketing
4) sure, it;'s problematic but you can mine monero and you may be able to find debit/cc cards that can be "loaded" with crypto currency. The gatekeepers are a problem but if people would just start using and accepting it we could get tpo a critical mass and force the issue with our governments or route around governments completely with smart contracts, web 3.0, etc. Of course this is all much more difficult than just being a slave.