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HN: We want real diversity in browsers, not everything should be a Chromium reskin.

Me: Well different browsers could support different features.

HN: NOT LIKE THAT, we want every website to be compatible with everything!



Your comment is really relevant in the helium browser discussion. Its so on point.

People want different browsers so that chromium doesn't get to enforce their monopoly on web standards but I mean, its already happening. Like, if something runs on chrome and it doesn't run on firefox and is used by a lot of people...

Effectively firefox is ALSO forced to have those chromium features...

Basically the web standards is held hostage by chromium and we need a very heavy migration of large swathes of people away from chrome to something like firefox and that's whats being advocated I suppose.

I use zen / firefox because I also don't want chromium. I mean, idk if I have a particular reason except the above logic that I shared. honestly, idk to be honest.


Roblox is kinda like a alternative web browser.

You simply can't expect to run Roblox games inside of Chrome

Roblox can't generally be used to file your taxes.

But your visiting user created experiences.

The big problem is it's all controlled by one super company .

There's no reason we can't have an open source browser like which allows you to play various games, or run other sandbox applications. These applications could be programmed in a variety of different languages.

In this scenario, whatever I still need Chrome to handle certain important business, but I can use this alternate browser to engage with tons of other content.


Yes roblox could be interpreted in that way.

Minecraft in a similar vein too.

I was actually thinking of creating a roblox alternative or atleast proposing the idea of modifying luanti which is open source to have roblox esque graphics.

So it would be the open source browser which allows you to play various games in some sense.

If you want sandbox applications, there is libriscv created by legendary fwsgonzo which can run on any device or wasm I suppose

https://www.luanti.org/

https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv


Diversity of implementations and opinions, not diversity of standards. Big difference.




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