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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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  • A large enough userbase to support more niche topics. On Lemmy, like a lot of small communities, people tend to put the cart before the horse. They make places to share content for very niche topics but there aren’t enough to warrant it. Plus sometimes you have mods in certain relatively niche groups that will remove content from their community because it is off topic, but their volume of posts is nowhere near enough for the occasional, technically off topic post to really matter. I see it in Discord servers too. Some places have more channels than users on the server. People get obsessed with categorization.




  • To be honest, I’m a firm believer that if it’s considered required to read the news file for updating then the update tool should be printing that information for you. I used to have a hook that did it, but it was flaky. Also, I saw the creator mention that due to the design of the hooks, it happens too late in the process for some manual intervention to be done properly. But because everyone in Arch has such an obsession with “no bloat” I doubt we’ll ever see pacman have that feature.












  • And yet many Chromium forks are following suit and disabling Manifest v2 support. The idea that these things “don’t need support” is silly when we’re talking about the Herculean effort of maintaining a browser. Yes, anyone can but when the vast majority of browsers are Chromium forks instead of individually created and maintained ones, how much effort do you think those organizations have?

    It’s good that browsers like Brave have an alternative means of ad blocking, and Firefox even has Brave’s exact same blocker built in now, but the idea that “you can just fork and block” is missing the point.

    Google has effectively won. They are the de facto controller of web standards now that the majority of browsers use Chromium. When they began dropping support for Manifest v2 in 2019 it was the same year they said ad blockers were a major threat to their revenue in their publicly filed shareholder statements. This isn’t some conspiracy theory either, you can literally go look that up. They dropped v2 because ad blocking was too powerful and gutted it in v3. They know that the ecosystem of browser forks they helped create depends on their dev effort and won’t keep v2.

    Even if v2 and ad blocking stay around, people still need to get the fuck off of Chromium. It’s ads today, but could be something else tomorrow. The problem is Google getting to easily control what like >80% of browsers see and do all because they control Chromium. Even if Google was suddenly like “you know what, we’re turning v2 back on,” I’d still be practically begging everyone to stay the fuck off of Chromium and get into something Firefox based. This is about so much more than just ads.