I'd watch that movie!
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It gets a bit more complicated than that when it comes to antitrust law.
They can ask users if they want that, I'm sure many of their users do. What they shouldn't do is force people to accept their version of "security and privacy".
The answer is app stores. People need to find your app, and web apps usually don't show up there. Also the web ecosystem is inherently slower to adopt new features, and it has historically been harder to build very custom experiences on it.
But why do we want more proprietary software running on Linux?
Because it's what reality looks like right now. Everything FOSS would be ideal, but it's probably not going to happen for a looooong time. In the meantime more software is always good, and it also means more FOSS software you can choose as an alternative.
Wouldn't we be recreating the same situation that Windows has?
No, because the base OS is still open, so you have choices that you don't have under Windows.
Why downvote me instead of replying with a reason why I'm "wrong" or discussing further?
Tbh it sounds a bit disingenuous when you say that you don't understand such a basic thing. It should be pretty obvious that more users means more interest from devs+companies and more support for the platform.
Incredible innovation, so brave!
Oh look, the EU threatens to investigate and potentially fine them, and suddenly there IS a way to preserve "security and privacy" with web apps. It's almost like the initial reasoning for the change was complete bullshit!
It's still only halfway there, but at least they are not removing existing functionality anymore. Let's see how the EU likes this new "only WebKit" restriction.
I recently started transcoding my media to save some space, and I went with h265 instead. AV1 will be great in a few years, but the hardware support is just not there yet.
The problematic ones for that are mostly recommendation algorithms afaik, but there are others like gamification ofc. You can call them engagement algorithms if you want to be a bit more broad. But that's what I mean when I criticize "algorithmic" platforms, and I think that's what most people mean when they talk about algorithms in this context.
There was some Internet outrage the other day: Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate people after overcorrecting for diversity in historical images
I think email is federated, but it's not a social network in the usual sense of the word. You don't have public feeds and profiles and such. Mailing lists are probably the closest thing, but you still have to subscribe to those to receive messages.
A standard is also about broad adoption though, so I don't think you can call SimpleX a standard yet.