Ancestors

Written by Ben Delarre on 2024-11-22 at 01:54

People who think selling off Chrome won't lead to disaster for the web please educate me as to how it'll be a good thing?

I've heard folks say the Chrome team holds back innovation and the browser is ripe for reinventing.

What planet do you live on where you think the 10s of thousands of hours required to reinvent the web stack to the point it's capable of everything we have today & more happens without it being in the enclosing grasp of capitalism and locking us in to this new walled garden?

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Written by Ben Delarre on 2024-11-22 at 01:57

We got incredibly lucky with how we netted out on the web so far. Somehow we managed to end up with 3 major browsers all competing on the same platform, we got multiple mega corporations to fund this shared innovation on standards development and it's actively pushing back on the walled gardens of those very same mega corporations! It's baffling it works at all.

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Toot

Written by Ben Delarre on 2024-11-22 at 02:05

The web balances on a knife edge. It's kept upright by impassioned people arguing for security and privacy and pushing within these organizations to make it all a reality. But it also runs on real engineering hours, sunk into projects that those same folks have managed to carve out space for within what should be entirely self interested corporate bodies.

Yes there is some lopsidedness right now, but upsetting that balance within the current economic and political environment is a Very Bad Idea

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Descendants

Written by ru on 2024-11-22 at 03:26

@bendelarre (what if) Google forced to sell chrome → openAI search engine overtakes google → elon buys chrome → google suffers → elon buys google → orwellian security state

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Written by Johan Halse on 2024-11-22 at 14:52

@bendelarre it’s super unpredictable! Makes me think of Libya. Sure, Gaddafi sucks and one might hope that something good will come once he’s gone, buuuut, odds are things will just descend into chaos

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