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>There is no real competition in search (and in social media, and in email, and in operating systems, and in browsers, ...). This is factually untrue. There's

>There is no real competition in search (and in social media, and in email, and in operating systems, and in browsers, ...). This is factually untrue. There's plenty of competition in social media and OSes, and Firefox still exists. For social media, there's Diaspora (yeah, I know, no one uses it), and for OSes you've got to be kidding: there's dozens of Linux distros out there or you can easily roll your own with various tools that are easily found. And despite its poor marketshare, Firefox still works quite well for me on Linux. You have a valid complaint about search and email though, but for email it's understandable: the underlying protocol is broken beyond repair because its designers never anticipated spam so the current state is really unavoidable. Luckily, people have found alternatives to email and just don't use it much any more.

p-e-w 4y ago
Firefox is near the lowest market share in its history, and declining further. Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5% and 3% of the desktop OS market, depending on who you ask. Mastodon, Diaspora, Lemmy etc. are niche products used by far fewer than 1% of people. That's not competition. That's "some geeks built some stuff and a couple of people use it occasionally". If there were just two car manufacturers, and one of them had 98% market share and the other 2%, I doubt you'd call that market "competitive". Competition doesn't simply mean "other stuff exists".
- midoridensha 4y ago
  >Firefox is near the lowest market share in its history, and declining further. Yes, but for now, it works just fine. Much better than Chrome IMO in fact. As long as Mozilla gets enough funding to continue development, this shouldn't change. >Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5% and 3% of the desktop OS market, depending on who you ask. Why does this matter? It works fine for countless people and companies. I'm using it at work right now, and have been using it exclusively at work for many years. Marketshare is meaningless with Linux anyway because almost no one pays for it, so of course it doesn't show up in marketshare surveys. >Mastodon, Diaspora, Lemmy etc. are niche products used by far fewer than 1% of people. But they exist and work. If people don't like Facebook et al, they're free to switch, and they have no right to complain. >Competition doesn't simply mean "other stuff exists". Yes, it really does. Those things are all viable alternatives. That's the definition of competition.
  - nicce 4y ago
    > Yes, but for now, it works just fine. Much better than Chrome IMO in fact. As long as Mozilla gets enough funding to continue development, this shouldn't change. It has gotten worse. And mostly Cloudflare is fo blame. Many sites are relying to Clouldflare and the human verification seems to work only in Chrome or Safari. It breaks so many important pages and they don’t seem to care to fix it.

p-e-w 4y ago

Firefox is near the lowest market share in its history, and declining further. Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5% and 3% of the desktop OS market, depending on who you ask. Mastodon, Diaspora, Lemmy etc. are niche products used by far fewer than 1% of people. That's not competition. That's "some geeks built some stuff and a couple of people use it occasionally". If there were just two car manufacturers, and one of them had 98% market share and the other 2%, I doubt you'd call that market "competitive". Competition doesn't simply mean "other stuff exists".

midoridensha 4y ago
>Firefox is near the lowest market share in its history, and declining further. Yes, but for now, it works just fine. Much better than Chrome IMO in fact. As long as Mozilla gets enough funding to continue development, this shouldn't change. >Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5% and 3% of the desktop OS market, depending on who you ask. Why does this matter? It works fine for countless people and companies. I'm using it at work right now, and have been using it exclusively at work for many years. Marketshare is meaningless with Linux anyway because almost no one pays for it, so of course it doesn't show up in marketshare surveys. >Mastodon, Diaspora, Lemmy etc. are niche products used by far fewer than 1% of people. But they exist and work. If people don't like Facebook et al, they're free to switch, and they have no right to complain. >Competition doesn't simply mean "other stuff exists". Yes, it really does. Those things are all viable alternatives. That's the definition of competition.
- nicce 4y ago
  > Yes, but for now, it works just fine. Much better than Chrome IMO in fact. As long as Mozilla gets enough funding to continue development, this shouldn't change. It has gotten worse. And mostly Cloudflare is fo blame. Many sites are relying to Clouldflare and the human verification seems to work only in Chrome or Safari. It breaks so many important pages and they don’t seem to care to fix it.