• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Many sites I visit are not because I like the design of the site, but that I like the content that the users it has attracted have uploaded. Sure, there’s YouTube alternatives, but they’re not a replacement for the scale of YouTube. There’s still a few subreddits I read because they don’t have a good lemmy alternative.

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            11 months ago

            Oh no, my local community events aren’t announced on Lemmy, therefore I should just never interact with people in my town and spend more time browsing lemmy.

            If you only allow all or nothing adopters, you’re going to end up with nothing.

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              11 months ago

              I have no idea what point you’re trying to make, as it doesn’t pertain to the discussion that’s going on.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, until there are almost no websites left you can go to.

      It worked in the '90s with internet explorer, it can work again now.

      You just have to care enough to push back, to leave suggestion comments saying their website doesn’t work with your browser, and that web browsing is an Internet standard. That’s how it was done last time.

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        11 months ago

        Sadly, it happened to IE as it was a nightmare to work with and web-devs started pushing back. Chrome is, by most accounts, the best browser to work with as a web-dev so it seems unlikely that there will be the same push back against it.

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          11 months ago

          Sadly, it happened to IE as it was a nightmare to work with and web-devs started pushing back.

          As a software developer during that time the fact that IE was or was not difficult to work with was not the reason for the pushback.

          What happened was thst the customer base did the pushback, reminding corporations who tried to do the quickest development possible, by working with just one single browser (the one with the most population), that the Internet is a standard, and that all browsers are supposed to work with their websites.

          Overtime that pressure created the change.

          And that can happen again now.

          Chrome is, by most accounts, the best browser to work with as a web-dev so it seems unlikely that there will be the same push back against it.

          Please don’t be so dismissal of the point I’m making.

          It worked before, it can work again.

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      11 months ago

      There will always be ways around it. Every time a barrier is put up, there are people who try to figure out how to break through it. For fun.