Just wondering, do you guys care about federation in this case or do you just want a goodreads alternative? Because building a global book database is not well suited to decentralization, and there are centralized indie alternatives that are more complete
I kinda embraced that as a teen and honestly hurt me a lot over the years because I have an irrational, pathological need to be different even when it doesn't matter and even when it takes way more effort and hurts me.
Google overpays quite a bit so they have a viable competitor to point to for chrome. If the payment tracked FF's usage numbers it would be way lower now. It makes no financial sense for any other search engine to pay that much.
That's assuming they could even afford it. Most can't
The correct solution would have been for Mozilla to pursue alternative income a long time ago. Owning a browser gives you a lot of leverage. Instead they made a half-hearted attempt a few years back and half the products failed. I don't know why FF fans were so comfortable holding them as the savior of the web when they were entirely funded by Google.
And now... well I don't see a way forward either. Maybe it should just die then.
Using computers with closed source biology. Classic.
I bet you haven't even engineered your own DNA-II, fully-sequenced, libre-licensed microbiome with open source biochemical pathways. Are your eyes even running an open-source neural firmware, or are you just a FOSS poser?
Just wondering, do you guys care about federation in this case or do you just want a goodreads alternative? Because building a global book database is not well suited to decentralization, and there are centralized indie alternatives that are more complete