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Several things:

• Owned by for profit company
• Browser engine is dominant
• Said company is in the ad business, so they don’t have the best incentives for privacy
• Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
• Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

Meanwhile, I’m glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace “invented Comic Sans” with “uses Chrome”) https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

Lots of engagement. One of the things that kills communities is people too shy/afraid to say something, and/or they just read posts and not contribute “content” like comments.

One of the smart things Reddit did was gamify the whole posting/commenting system with karma. Sure, it lead to a lot of really stupid and petty online drama, but it helped build the website where people engaged in it more because folks like seeing numbers go up.

I feel like lemmy needs a similar system, but I am aware that it can and will lead to some low quality posts/comments.

It actually makes me realise - back in 2016 when thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit, none of the people at the top did anything.

Now with these API changes, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted.

I look back on that shitshow with even more pennies dropping.