Ladybird can't happen soon enough. I've been a ff advocate for many, many years and it pains me to say this, but I've had enough now. I don't want my browser to be made by an advertising company.
I wish Mozilla the best. It would be great if they could be successful in advocating for web ads that consist of, say, a jpeg and an href, but I don't think that's ever going to happen.
It's been frustrating to watch the precipitous decline of Mozilla and Firefox over the past decade.
Here's hoping AKling & Co ships an Android version of Ladybird. I'll happily pay for a browser developed by a team that cares about creating a quality product. That's vastly preferable to suffering the constant contempt that the people at Firefox seem to have for their ~~most ardent~~ few remaining supporters.
Edit: The Ladybird faq[0] says:
>Will Ladybird work on mobile devices?
>We don't have anyone actively working on an Android or iOS port. More effort will be put into mobile once we have the desktop versions in a good state.
>While there is the start of an Android port in the project repository, mobile is not a priority at the moment.
If Lemmy had an automod I'd happily try to move the niche communities I help mod over, but without even the basics (regex rules + mod queue) attempting to mod any sizeable community is ime an exercise in frustration, making Lemmy essentially useless for us.
That's a real shame, because otherwise it looks like great software. I've got an offline instance sitting on AWS since last summer just waiting for any bit of progress, but gave up hope some time ago.
Maybe if I was a teenager again I would spend the time to figure out how to use Lemmy, but at this age:
I go in, curiosity takes me to “instances”, I see a million. Click a few, many are dead and I start wondering “wait, I have to navigate through this sea of non descriptive URLs that tell me nothing about the instance to get to the data?”
And even if that’s not true, that’s about where I drop it, because it seems like a big climb for something I already know won’t work as a Reddit replacement because there is no way my friends will be convinced to put this kind of effort, and because it’s hard to discover.
Please tell me which communities you mod, and if it's not anything 18+ I can help you with moderation and use it to guide the development of the moderation dashboard I started working on.
Satisfied Kagi early adopter here. Can you make a Mediawiki extension also? MW search leaves something to be desired, and I'd love to have Kagi on my wiki site.
Keep up the great work, you have an incredible product.
I wish Mozilla the best. It would be great if they could be successful in advocating for web ads that consist of, say, a jpeg and an href, but I don't think that's ever going to happen.