Yes, It was easier to do truly representative polls, when people loved answering questions and everybody had a landline.
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Yes, It was easier to do truly representative polls, when people loved answering questions and everybody had a landline.
This is way a too revolutionary idea.
I’m sorry.
It was certainly never my intention to impose myself like an official channel or something like that.
I still welcome a debate here.
Of course, it’s not official.
I made this poll, as just a normal Fedi user.
It got more attention than I had anticipated, though.
I guess, that is what most people want.
However: Revenue is a good thing. Being trusted by the community is infinitely more valuable.
Good point.
Yes and no.
Obviously, the people questioned here, are not representative for the entire FF user community.
However: The Fediverse at large is a community of mostly tech-savvy people, who do care about independence from major corporations.
These are, in fact, also the people who are the core users and developers of FOSS software.
Whilst the exact percentage means nothing, the tendency is so clear that it should, at least, be taken into consideration.
Did you read part 2 & 3?
You are definitely not alone!
Fake Professionalism!
I don’t believe that CEOs, who demand a 7 digit salary, have the ability to understand the soul and heart of a collective of people (in the case of many #FOSS projects: some of the world’s most skilled and talented programmers), who donate lots of their time and energy for a project they believe in, and hence lack the credibility and skills necessary for making them thrive in the long term.
Firefox’s ever falling market share proves that.
3/3
as being a prominent and established way of accessing the internet without using a product owned by one of three three tech giants.
No niche browser can play the same role.
To me, hopping onto a running train doesn’t seem to be the way to go when it comes to creating and keeping trust:
People, who think that cars are a terrible way of getting people around in cities, don’t want another Tesla, they want a good bike.
Here we have a problem, common to many non-profits:
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I know, but these extensions are essential for circumventing censorship.
This is exactly, what I call “bowing to an autocracy”.
My all-time favourite is Kubuntu.
Installation and use is as easy as it gets.
Killing tabs is mean and cruel!
However, even with 100s of them, you just need to jump into the address bar and type some letters of the tab’s address and Firefox will offer you to switch to it.
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Same!
But isn’t it a bit sad, we’ve all become so paranoic whilst at the same time being total oblivious to sharing lots of data, just because we want to know what the kitten did to the alligator?