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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: 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.