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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:33:54 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   One of those blogpost drafts I have sitting around: "How to build a FOSS, community-oriented browser"

   Maybe I'll finish it some day

   But hint: the key to all of it is WASM-GC!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 09:19:49 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire
     • Fly-paper-love-maker

     @flypaper @damngoodtech I do know it! It's not quite the same flow I'm suggesting but I am hopeful for Ladybird's success!

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     Fly-paper-love-maker (flypaper@autonomous.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 09:19:50 JST Fly-paper-love-maker

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     • Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire

     @damngoodtech @cwebber do you know about https://ladybird.org/ ? Should be to 1.0 in a year or two. I’ve watched some interviews with the creator and he seems to have things lined up to complete this browser made on good open source principles. Totally open and not profit driven.

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     Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire (damngoodtech@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 09:19:51 JST Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire

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     @cwebber I've been toying with an idea similar -- creating a commercial open source browser.

     I think it's necessary to keep the web free.

     We basically have Google running the show with Chrome, selling user data.

     Then we have Mozilla, staggering along as a nonprofit with Gecko, taking financial sips from Google as they do.

     I think a for-profit open source browser is the only way we can have a community-oriented browser.