[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I want the premium vertical UI and ease of switching spaces in Arc but without the AI slop and venture-backed rhetoric about reinventing the browser.

The browser is fine. We need more companies that can fork the good parts of successful browser engines and remove the tracking and AI hype bloat. Those companies won’t make VC-level money but they could make decent year-over-year profit with a strong community following.

[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

ACF already had so many problems incorporating into Gutenberg. I can’t see SCF having any sort of future when the team maintaining it is actively developing a fundamentally different editor experience.

[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I kind of don’t want it to succeed to the level of Twitter. All the people I like on Mastodon are there now and the trolls and chuds are mostly staying away because they don’t get the attention of millions of eyeballs.

[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“I’m not affiliated with WP Engine” is this nerd generation’s “I’m 18 or older, let me in.”

[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 2 months ago

I could navigate 8 different streaming services with unique catalogs and awful UIs just to find that my show isn’t available in Canada—not with a clear notification, but by empty search results where it’s supposed to be.

Or I could run a docker container that automatically searches everywhere for me and puts shows in my library minutes after their release.

For my uses it would be more convenient to pirate shows on the services I still pay for.

[-] vastard@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 3 months ago

My experience matches yours. I don’t enjoy putting recapcha v3 on my sites but it takes contact form spam from 70-80 messages per day to 0-2.

I’d switch to other services if they could be as effective. If anybody has real-world experience with another option working I’d love to hear it.

vastard

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