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Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@aeva funnily enough, I remember a poll on Mastodon (pre Musk migration) where Firefox turned out to be the majority browser, which surprised me a lot. May be it's time to run a new one.

8 Sep 2023 at 4:45 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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aeva

@isagalaev normally I'd question the wisdom of putting too much trust in a social media poll but I haven't had a single enraged person in my mentions frothing about how firefox killed jfk or something so I think you might be on to something with this "[this corner of] mastodon is mostly cool people" theory of yours

8 Sep 2023 at 4:56 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@aeva I wouldn't go as far as characterizing people based just on that, but it's an interesting data point nonetheless.

8 Sep 2023 at 4:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Arne Brasseur

@aeva @isagalaev I did a poll like that just yesterday! Small sample size but Firefox is a pretty clear winner. At least we can conclude I have cool followers toot.cat/@plexus/1110224573685

8 Sep 2023 at 13:34 | Open on toot.cat
Kevin Russell

@aeva @isagalaev

Firefox killed jfk? Oh noes. With a candle? In the Dining room?

8 Sep 2023 at 17:53 | Open on mstdn.social
Kegthoth-Rha
@aeva @isagalaev I think I remember that pole, and got kind of annpyed that FF and Chrome were the only options.
Ik why, its because everyone who used Brave/Edge/whatever would hit "Other" even though they're Chrome, but still.
8 Sep 2023 at 5:43 | Open on fallcounty.monster
firewyre

@isagalaev @aeva feels like classic sampling bias, early mastodon users are exactly the kind of people that would use firefox

9 Sep 2023 at 4:27 | Open on techhub.social
aeva

@firewyre @isagalaev the real sampling bias has been that my mentions have been complete dogshit since this hit 127 boosts. I figure it must have jumped over to the reddit clones branch of activitypub around that point.

9 Sep 2023 at 8:31 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@aeva @firewyre had the same problem, but some good folks suggested I could mute the conversation. Which for some reason hadn't occurred to me before that :-)

9 Sep 2023 at 8:32 | Open on mastodon.social
aeva

@isagalaev @firewyre oh I mean, well, yes, and I even went and tacked an indignant vaguely threatening "muting this" post to the thread yesterday, but then for reasons I cannot explain, I've left the whole thing unmuted as a joke at my own expense to which I'm also the only person laughing. I tell myself it's a setup for a "don't believe everything you read on the internet" joke but no one's walked into it yet

9 Sep 2023 at 8:40 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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