cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68754751
There was a time I chose Firefox over the Chromium browser without a second thought. But nowadays, installing and opening Firefox seems like a time-consuming, very bloated experience.
Too many unnecessary features, promotions, sponsored links, and widgets are filled on the homepage. Firefox no longer allows deleting default search engines like google, perplexity, etc but can disable it. What kind of privacy feature is that? Also, all the data collection options are ticked by default. Users are needed to manually tweak it their own. Update after update instead of improving they make all the settings more complex, and there is a lot to set up after a fresh installation.
When I compare modern Firefox with 4–5 years behind Firefox, I feel like I am using browsers like Vivaldi or Opera instead of Firefox. Once we praised Firefox for its ram management in Linux but nowadays, it’s bloat causes using more ram and not a lightweight option anymore. Seriously, Firefox must consider releasing a browser like Brave Origin (Firefox Origin or something).
Isn’t anybody else frustrated with the new Firefox changes? If yes, what practical solutions exist? Debloat using any script or install any forks (no forks seem to be good; some are outdated, some are too much hardened, some are just not for daily browsing, etc.).
I’m just looking for a browser like Ungoogled Chromium but for Firefox (Unmozilla Firefox).
how active?
thats a deep question
first: honest and worthy question. but potentially* freeloading type question.
one area where it definitely matters: POLITICS . if u feel that your contrarian vote is relatively less effective than publishing political commentary. ok cool. But… how many people (Exactly) are going to read and think about it. thats a critical question.
answer:
surprisingly… relatively active (if we thought it was absolute totally 100% dead.)
https://reddit.com/r/geminiprotocol/new
2+1(my own) subs on lemmy.
maybe (estimated 200 posts dated for this year (YTD). very quick estimated guess(kennedy search for “2016” … ~80% of first sample of results are links to aggregator posts.))
tangentially related: i can honestly say that lagrange is a pretty darn good client(not perfect. but quite usable after you customize it to your liking)
negatives:
i think fediverse posting is lowering. dont know why. maybe AI use increasing. i think that should be a proxy metric for challenges ahead. another question: in the age of AI data mining… do ppl really want to post on the web. furthermore… why would anyone want to post ANYWHERE. :potentially another challenge. the loss of some key sites(“assets”) is unfortunate. but i think they are open source… so anyone could theoretically… do the work… and spin up, more refined/improved, versions of those assets.
other resources: https://codeberg.org/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini/commits/branch/main
and github mirror : https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
github active projects: https://github.com/search?q=%23gemini-protocol&type=repositories&s=updated&o=desc
gemini://station.martinrue.com/
gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
Wtf is this shit.
wrong thread.