Vivaldi is one of the dozen supporting orgs, so why link to their blog instead of the original annoucement that mentions all of them? https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/
Another related link was submitted earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636491 if it helps.
Even after reading through this it is not clear at all what is it! "Something-something-fediverse"
There are literally bullet points to list what the Foundation will do.
These bullets?
> educating general and targeted audiences about the social web
> informing policy-makers about issues on the social web
> enhancing and extending the ActivityPub protocol
> building tools and plumbing to make the social web easier and more engaging to use
Maybe I need more education about the social web but these tell me very little about what is actually going to be done.
...and a giant mission button in the menu.
Related: "Holy Hell, the Social Web Did Not Begin in 2008" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644267
I see Meta is one of the founding supporters.
Is Meta not the absolute antithesis of privacy? The complete polar-opposite of what people have tried to achieve with the fediverse? One of the main things they are trying to move away from?
Seems like a very strange decision here - "letting the fox into the hen house".
Zuckerberg has said many times he is a huge supporter of the fediverse.
Because (a) it keeps regulators off their back, (b) they can monetise content generated in other apps and (c) it keeps the competition on a level playing field which plays to their strengths.
I'm more knowledgeable about Lemmy than Mastodon but It's a misconception that the fediverse is more private
The decentralization forces some things to be fully public, such as your likes, who upvotes what etc
Plus from a legislation standpoint, you lose some of your rights out there - like the right to be forgotten. It's impossible to enforce GDPR on ActivityPub.
It's a weird middle-seat where on one hand, the fediverse won't start asking you for your name or to get a picture of you holding your ID, but on the other, at least when Facebook trains its models on the stuff you post, they'll tell you about it in their user agreement.
Meta runs Threads which has ActivityPub support
Vivaldi does what MozDon’t?
Just a PSA, that you really shouldn't be using Vivaldi or any closed source browser. As we know, companies that start off privacy/ethically focused (take Mozilla for example) eventually turn evil and start spying/tracking their users.
Vivaldi will eventually start doing this, and you'll have absolutely no idea because it's entirely closed source. No one knows what mischief they get up to.
TL;DR; Don't sign into your bank with Vivaldi
>take Mozilla for example
I thought Firefox was open source?
That's not it, Mozilla decided to leave the fediverse and has been loading Firefox with AI and opt-out tracking features. All while still being funded by Big G.
I'm assuming they left the fediverse because it ended up not being a huge success, and not because they suddenly pivoted against decentralization.
> Mozilla decided to leave the fediverse
did they? their mastodon instance at mozilla.social still seems to exist.
They recently announced that it'll be shutting down.
That’s right, the hill to die on is the browser’s openness.
Not your OS, not your firmware. Not your hardware. It’s the browser
Thanks for raising closed hardware too, and I presume you are talking about the Intel ME (backdoor spyware [1] that Intel puts into all their chips via their closed source proprietary firmware). It's a complete blackbox, other CPU that no one knows entirely what it does, but has full access to your main CPU/memory/computer, and allows it to be remotely controlled by anyone with Intels signing keys.
We need to open this too, or at least be transparent, and your points on closed firmware/hardware is really important.
Intel ME is disabled and neutralized on my Librem 15.
You can never truly be sure as it's can't be entirely removed. There has to be a little bit remaining, just the first few modules or the machine will shut down after 30 minutes, but the Librem 15 is a beautiful machine and Puri.sm are really awesome.
As a cat of nine lives, there are many hills I intend to die on
It's a hill, I don't think anyone said it's the hill.
'Try to detect benefit cheats.'
Or wait till the 1st one surrounded a mountain successful at a hight of 3,5km
;-)
Since you are also mentioning Mozilla, what browser would you recommend instead?
Brave is solid. Opensource with some nice features
Such as web3/cypto/bullshit
mozilla is spying/tracking users now?
Yup [1]. They've basically left their core mission and just sell out now.
1. https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-fea...
Things are more complex than that. Yes, they're engaged in creating an ads measurement technique that is actually very private (read the specs). No, they're not making money out of it. Yes, they've done a terrible job at explaining that to users.