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  • a streak on tiktok is a number that goes up the more you talk, I know, it’s pretty stupid

    Whatever floats your boat. I care about the content of messages, not the number going up. Even more so, I prefer IRL interactions to digital ones.

    I don’t think I’d appreciate ranking my friends by number, but interesting food for thought – imagine a regular chat app telling you the frequency of messages per day, so you can be fair dividing your attention to all your friends 🤔




  • You’ll probably think the reason is stupid, but I’m not really down to use Firefox mainly because I think their interface is terrible.

    No, that’s fine. Probably a trade-off between usability and philosophy at this point. You actually nearly succeeded in having me try brave but it’s not in F-Droid repositories, so I didn’t.

    There’s also the fact that most of the money Mozilla makes comes from Google, and I don’t really feel good using a product from a company that’s basically propped up by Google

    Pretty sure Brave wouldn’t exist without Google money either. They’re not independent from Google if they didn’t code their browser from scratch, IMHO.

    Fennec

    Basically FOSS build of mobile firefox. If you tried FF, no need to try Fennec.

    the only people who are 100% ethical all the time are trust fund babies or fools

    idk how one could be ethical as trust fund baby, who by definition gets funded by the patriarchy and capitalism.

    Obviously I’m not operating 100% ethical either, but my goal isn’t 100% but whatever percentage is more than what I did last year.

    For example, in 2012 I had 70 Amazon orders. In 2021 I actually managed to get it down to 0. Recently I kinda relapsed but at least it’s less than 20 for 2025, I’m striving to get back down to 0 again. Morally perfect? Certainly not. But I’m trying.

    What I’m saying is, I’m doing this based on the browser’s makers’ vibes, and the article confirms that other people than myself have the same focus on the same issues as me. I just didn’t wamt to list them all in a lemmy post.

    And my bad if any of my comments came off as rude or like I was trying to offend anyone, that wasn’t my intention.

    Thank you! Your clarification made me feel better interacting with you regardless of intention :)




  • earn crypto

    Telltale sign of a completely non-shady browser right there! AI and cryptobros never did anything to hurt FOSS or the world in general, so it’s fine! Consume product!

    You wanted to have suggestions about what to make better. Why do you use Brave instead of Firefox/Fennec? You can easily install uBlock Origin in the latter and also browse the web without ads and without shady side-features you don’t use anyway.

    Brave is a Chromium fork and Chromium is bad for browser diversity. Supporting another browser is “more FOSS friendly” I’d say. That was your initial question, wasn’t it?

    I found this article which explains really well why I personally wouldn’t use Brave based on morals and “vibes”: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

    It’s a philosophical question. If you don’t see it that way and don’t care, continue to use Brave. But why ask for other’s opinions to then dunk on them? Why do we need to prove to you Brave is bad when you asked for our opinion? It’s OK for you to have a different opinion.