@jon Not directly tied to Fediverse, but I find myself searching via DDG for some specific terms more often as Google just spits blurb of unrelated links.
@Vivaldi

I use Vivaldi but I would really like to see more attention to quality. Breaking things randomly in minor releases and then taking half a year to fix them is not okay, guys. A public issue tracker would also help, instead of the scream-into-the-void bug report form. I understand that you've taken everything from the old Opera team, but this part should've been left behind.

@jon I’m currently trying Zen, which is FF inside and Arc outside, basically.
Re: why, I think Chrome is the new IE6, and we need more engines to keep the web open

@jon I'd agree that closed, proprietary algos definitely bless some speech and surpresss others. Studies show YouTube's algo recommendation drives over 77 percent of all video views. What I hope for the Fediverse is that most clients default to just a reverse-chron algo, but then also let USERS create, share and tweak algorithms, that they are empowered to use, or not use.

@jon Thanks for this post - it's probably one of the two main reasons I chose to join Fedi. I know, however, that follower/following dynamics can cause echo chambers, albeit ones that are much more visible and less abusive than those subtly formed by profiling.

Do you have any advice for minimizing these echo chambers, or when an echo chamber may become a problem rather than just being a convenient portal to a common interest?

@jon @EUCommission I work with AI/LLMs alot. It is relatively easy to spot bias when it is spoken out loud; it's more insidious when things are hidden and omitted. Google Gemini and ChatGPT will not answer questions about White, Wealthy, Conservative Men. Google and the tech oligarchs have an agenda.

@jon
Honestly, I still believe that crypto could be used as legitimate alternative currency that can be private and also act as a universal currency in the age of the internet.

However as you said, most crypto is no longer that. The issue is that there is no actual control on how much any crypto is worth at any given time. Even stuff like art follows the same story because of the same reasons. Instead of using it like actual currency, it's being used as an investment to make more fiat money

@jon I disagree, look at coins like Litecoin that normally floats around the $100AUD you say it’s unstable and to volatile here the last 5 years and here is the USD to AUD it’s more volatile and causes more stress to Australian businesses who get bills in USD.

Cryptocurrency is the future, even governments and Federal Reserves are saying that.

@jon
Oh, that Oslo space complexes, with their waterfalls and all! 🫠

@jon The "other" is probably the Fediverse retrocomputing community plus those who use one of the *BSDs plus those whose retort is "Linux is a kernel, not an operating system". 🙂

@jon I’d missed you could choose multiple options….. For me as well as MacOS I could have voted for iOS and iPadOS.

@jon 💪 W Linux.🙏

@jon@social.vivaldi.net

Windows on my main rig
MacOS on my laptop
Linux on my other laptops and servers
Android for my main phone
iOS for my second phone

I just don’t have anything running ChromeOS ​:neocat_lul:​

@jon bigger linux numbers than I was expecting

@jon Android is Linux.

@jon Since 2020, I've just made a switch to Linux full-time and as of this year I'm now locally backing up photos/videos to my own home-serve using the Immich project.

@jon
No Microsoft for me, thanks.

@jon Yes, but you forgot Outlook and its new grab-your-emails rubric. If you don't allow MS cloud to copy all your emails from local or other cloud services, then you can't get updates (and the program will keep nagging you that updates are available). #darkpatterns #microsoft

@jon Uh, I presume something happened to Mozilla Social?

@jon @Vivaldi Great news, especially about the blogs. I already use Vivaldi as my goto browser. I will consider switching to vivaldi.social if you bring your blogs to the fediverse. A federated Ghost alternative with newsletters would be great. Write.as offers newsletters with WriteFreely, but only on their paid service.

@jon
Hey! We're a lot of people here who has asked NRK (sent mail to NRKbeta) if they won't set up shop here. I'd love if you would chime in as well, who has some weight. An Ytring on NRK.no?

@dw_innovation "nobody really cares about football"

Please tell your colleague, that this isn't true. I had to set up a filter to remove this topic from my feed. (Yes, I'm looking at you, @kontrollierterWahnwitz! 😉) Fortunately this is really easy and works really well.

@jon

@jon The link has been changed (looks like they modified the URL to spell it "mastadon", unfortunately)
https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastadon

@jon @Vivaldi Gmail app on the iPhone is my most often used mail client.

@jon I prefer @Waterfox . Why?

It allows to auto-hide bookmarks, tabs, browser arrows&update the page button each individually, etc.

Also, #Vuvaldi doesn't let's me to watch higher quality videos then 1440p.

#Firefox , #Librewolf , #Waterfox do allow me to watch **without buffering** (on my HD screen it buffers) 4K videos.

On mobile, I can set a custom search engine, specifically in Firefox and Waterfox, but you can't do it in Vivaldi for Android. Synchronization isn't comfortable solution.

@jon @Vivaldi whenever I’m sharing my browser window on a zoom call and do tiling or stacking people are like what browser are you using?

@jon @Vivaldi It's true, Vivaldi has it all, but I don't need it all that much. But I need a good browser with open source code and Google-independent engine. That's why #Firefox.

@jon @Vivaldi > NOTE: This package is not officially endorsed or supported by Vivaldi Technologies.
This statement made me stay on the traditional model.

@jon @Vivaldi Thank you so much! I've been waiting for this for a looooong time.

@jon @Vivaldi Vivaldi is the best browser out there. It's a shame it's based on Chromium. Is there any possibility it will be ported to a Firefox Base?

@jon @Vivaldi https://www.similarweb.com/browsers/

@jon @Vivaldi https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2023-q2

@jon @Vivaldi It is not technically possible to determine reliable figures. It is possible to determine the browsers used per website, but even that is not always reliable. I think that the user numbers are published by the browser manufacturers on the basis of telemetry data.

@jon Oh that's such great news! I hope it just keeps growing!

@jon @Vivaldi It just has such a good interface and feature set. I’ve never seen custom filter lists in an iOS browser before.

I know all browsers here are limited to WebKit but this makes the experience so much more tolerable.

@jon @Vivaldi It looks very neat! I like the design language even better than on Mac. ☺️
But I can't find a way to setup my search engine, https://kagi.com... 😔 (It's possible in Firefox on iOS - see image.)

If it's not currently possible, I'd love to see it added to the list! A tracking _and_ ad-free search engine should be right up your alley. ☺️