petrescatraian, 4 months ago

@Vivaldi Aaand, you just created a Lemmy post as well. Fuck yeah! Isn't it wonderful? 😁

phillycodehound, 5 months ago

Honestly, spin up your own instance. Don’t rely on a browser company to host it for you.

mcastel, 6 months ago

@Vivaldi @wordpress Vivaldi blogs are really a wonderful thing. An important part of the warm sense of community I experience here.

danielfgom, 6 months ago

@Vivaldi @wordpress I had no idea at all that you offered this service. That's amazing! I'll check it out! 👍

chris, 6 months ago

@Vivaldi @wordpress Mh,

How do you finance your operation? And why not #opensource it for public #audit?

I like your #browser but in 2023 a non-open browser is a no-no.

AltCode, 6 months ago

@chris @Vivaldi @wordpress Regarding how they finance themselves, you can read about their business model: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

As for why they're not open source, you can read about that here: https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

viktor, 6 months ago

@chris @Vivaldi @wordpress Their excuse to keep their UI close-sourced is the reason I don't use it. They don't want anyone to fork and benefit from it, while they have no problems forking and benefiting from other open source projects 🤦‍♂️🙄

"other parties could take the code and build an equivalent browser (essentially a fork) more easily."

They should have used AGPL to force others to contribute. They would get more users looking for an open-source alternative to Chrome.

chris, 5 months ago

@viktor @Vivaldi @wordpress That doesn't make sense. They even agree that 90% of their code is taken from open source projects, ie, other peoples time. But the 10% is now supremely special. Rules don't apply. They make money from only the 10% and not the 90% they took.

And a browser that injects referrals into my stuff, well, I am too old school for this to call this cool.