I've recently become an ambassador for @Vivaldi. I can't wait to get started with events and all that, and just working together with all the other ambassadors!
@cliffwade@mastohost@Vivaldi@marialeal Yes! 👏🏼 Hugo and Mastohost have been so great for us. They are truly the best place to go if you’re looking to spin up a Mastodon instance with minimal effort.
If you use Linux and feel let down by AI taking over your browser and the lack of easy customization options available, Sean Davis @bluesabre tells you why our powerful browser is worth your attention.
Read all about it as Sean explains what it means to be a Chromium browser, shares his favorite features, and talks about our Linux Community and all the wonderful people behind making Vivaldi what it is today. 👇🏻
Considering that my followers are mostly Linux, specifically Xfce folks, you'll love all the features and customization options. It also lacks all the AI, crypto, and tracking nonsense you try to avoid.
Morning all my peeps on the #Fediverse. Happy Saturday and hopebtye day is going well for y’all so far.
Let’s get together and have our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what our plans are for today.
Currently drinking my morning coffee. I’ll be watching the Monaco qualifying and then at 1pm EST I have the @Vivaldi Community Talk with @cliffwade. Rest of the day is free for now.
@beardedtechguy@Vivaldi@cliffwade Happy Saturday. I took my granddaughter to, now I’m sitting outside in beautiful weather having my morning coffee. The plan is to maybe go to the beach later. I should be pressure washing. We’ll see how that goes.
ICQ is closing down. It was really at its height in 2000 and that is when we integrated ICQ into Opera. We made a small (5k) client and it worked really well.
AOL had purchased ICQ and they were concerned about MSN taking users from them by connecting to their service, so they stopped supporting 3rd party clients. We contacted them, to see if they would make an exception for us, but they did not.
They said that if we removed our 5k client, we could maybe discuss bundling their client, but it was bigger than Opera, so that was not going to happen.
@jon Another perfect example of companies ruining an experience by trying to lock you into their ecosystem. Makes me love #Vivaldi even more than I already do.
@jon This was to be expected. First AOL dug a grave for the messenger, and now MailRU and VK have started doing everything to lure and bury ICQ in that grave. ICQ will finally be allowed to die in peace after all the bullying with unnecessary features and silly parodies of Telegram and WhatsApp
I'm super excited to announce that @beardedtechguy and myself will be joining the @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Community Talks show tomorrow, May 25th at 1pm EST.
We'll be discussing why being on the #Fediverse matters to us!
We'd love for you to tune and give it a listen, and you can do so via the link below.