Turns out when you gotta choose between going defunct and selling ad space, selling ad space wins.
Also turns out that drying up donations for privacy protecting browsers means there is less demand for it, and less money to fund it.
The majority cost of Firefox is engineering salaries.
Eventually something has to give, and this is it.
Hell, even worse, crying in the lost information. Discord is a black hole where community knowledge goes to die.
It’s the worst.
I don’t see it on the app store to remove anymore
Chrome* or Chromium based browsers*
Protocols are much more difficult to create and implement.
The barrier for technical ability and maturity is much higher. Which is why you don’t see them as often, and when you do see them they tend to suck, have massive gaps, or some other significant failing that prevents them from really scaling out.
Building reliable and robust protocols with a hobby project is a nearly impossible task, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of minds over a long period of time to settle on the specifications. And just as long to actually implement it.
Usually this requires some sort of funding and dedicated resources from the get-go. Which many of these projects lack.
Matrix is a long fuckin shot from “doing things right” it’s not even funny. Have you not seen their funding crisis, the cost to host, and the general inability for it to scale affordably?
It’s almost a poster child for what I just said. Protocols are hard, that’s a great example. Funding is hard, that’s a great example. Software engineering is expensive, that’s a great example. 🤦
Also please don’t straw man me. I’m stating the facts, protocols are hard to make. If you want to make one, you should know this, if you want to hand wave the word, then you should know this.
Being more informed isn’t defeatism, stop trying to be toxic and swing anti intellectualism as a weapon to shut down conversation. If you don’t want people to talk and discuss topics of interest, STFU and go somewhere that isn’t here with that sort of attitude.