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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @08:01PM (1 child)
Diaspora still exists and has users, but my understanding is that the current most successful federated social network is Mastodon. Supposedly they have 4 million users now. I used it for a while and met all kinds of interesting people worldwide, but none of my friends and family I knew before using Mastodon adopted it. I didn't mind that, I just quit because I found it nearly as addictive as Facebook even without researchers pouring limitless cash into fostering user addictions to the site.
Side note - the Boomers in my Facebook network have a right-wing echo chamber and a left-wing echo chamber, and the two sides scream at each other a lot. It's the reason I only login to the site once a month. I should have quit because their business model is corrupt and because fuck privacy invasions and double fuck advertisers. But mostly I quit because the stream of political lies put my blood pressure into 'imminent stroke' territory. Let's see, most recently... California legalized pedophilia (no), Trump paid off eight families whose children he raped (no), the media covered up that Antifa staged the Capitol riots (no), Putin controls Trump (no)... I would continue but I feel my pulse pounding again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @09:59PM
All that is GREAT for site engagement!