@philry4n I still have that t-shirt by the way. I will not wear it now as I do not want to advertise for the competition but it is a fond memory nonetheless. ?
So I made a bot @vivaldiversiontracker on a pure whim last night. It took (max) an hour to get it working (while I was watching TV), and yet it already has more followers than my Oulipo Social account, which has posted 210 posts over several days. My bot has posted just once (so far).
So… my takeaway from this is I am less interesting than an almost silent bot? ?
@admin Vivaldi is not Opera. @jon and many others who worked there are not associated with Opera anymore. Vivaldi values privacy and customisation. I am not sure what Opera values anymore. Money?
You can obviously still use other Vivaldi services like sync or use the browser to login to a Crypto friendly instance if you like. Nothing we can or would do to prevent that.
But you cannot promote that stuff here.
I have already seen a few things that are pretty close.
@aral@spacekookie@jon@Vivaldi Growth of an open system over a locked one (e.g. Twitter). You do not all have to have accounts here and let's be honest most people will not.
That is fine. I do not think that providing access to the fediverse or offering an instance to anyone who wants to join, no matter what browser they use is an inherntly bad thing.
@spacekookie@aral@jon@Vivaldi Trust is earned of course. Nothing I say right now will instantly convince you because you do not know me or us yet. However if you use your search engine of choice to read what Jon has said in the past he is very consistent in his support for open protocols.
But again this is trust and trust is earned. I do not expect to convince you in a thread like this. ??
I work in QA for #VivaldiBrowser and also handle much of the release process for desktop products.I generally favour very simple technologies that allow me to better understand and fix things. On the other hand Vivaldi is so powerful and permits so much flexibility, that I love it anyway. 😉I am also a keen #unicyclist and a fan of other unusual simple cycles. #ActiveTransport for the win! 🚴Pronouns: He/him/hissearchable