• deus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I feel like you’d be interested in Ladybird. It’s a fully independent web browser under development, it’s still in its very early stages but they seem serious about it.

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      3 months ago

      We need a better funding model for open source.

      Praying that people will donate enough to support your browser isn’t exactly great and really doesn’t work for most open-source projects.

      Unless they are doing something new in that space, it’ll just he smooching up to big donors in back rooms.

      At least Firefox is open about their deal with Google.

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        3 months ago

        I’ve always said “give everyone a software voucher they can spend on whatever software developer and the government assigns grants based on vouchers”

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      3 months ago

      The challenge for Ladybird and other independent browser projects is the enormous size and scope required of modern browsers, which is also still growing. Web browsers are now probably second only to operating systems in complexity in the personal computing space.

      Plus even if they do reach technical maturity, they still have to convince people to use it. That’s not been going very well for Mozilla, and they already have a working browser.