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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, 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.