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For the record, I also have expressed plenty of choice words for both Google and Chrome, too. I think the whole web is garbage and I'm prepared to throw it out
by ddevault 6y ago
For the record, I also have expressed plenty of choice words for both Google and Chrome, too.
I think the whole web is garbage and I'm prepared to throw it out. That's the point I'm getting at here. I don't see Mozilla as the last holdouts of a system which is true and good before the flood of Google overtakes everything and ruins the good thing. I see Mozilla as already drowning in that flood and the "good thing" as being not good, but abhorrent.
Maybe they could have held the tide, but instead they stuck their fingers in every fad they could reach, and got burned, and now they're neck deep in problems of their own making. And I don't think it'd be better if they were ankle deep anyway.
- grey_earthling 6y ago> I think the whole web is garbage and I'm prepared to throw it out. What does this mean in practice? Will Sourcehut move to Gemini-only? Will you stop using the web for anything except advertising Gemini? Are you suggesting a more gradual multilateral migration?
- ddevault 6y agoI am working on a gradual migration, personally. My blog is now dual HTTP/Gemini and I've started writing some Gemini-exclusive posts. There are a number of blockers, but I would ultimately like to also make SourceHut available over Gemini. My goal is to persuade people that the alternative is compelling and get them to join up of their own volition. I'm not going to pull the rug out of anyone who is already relying on HTTP/HTML to get things done.
- grey_earthling 6y ago> My goal is to persuade people that the alternative is compelling and get them to join up of their own volition. Yeah, I agree that saying “Thing X is bad; don't use it” is usually less persuasive than saying “Thing Y is good; try it!”... and then Thing Y gradually displaces Thing X.