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I haven’t read the article but, couldn’t sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says “forget all previous instructions…” and so on.

Pretty much this… although I usually have at least a few moments of paranoia thinking about what I might be about to lose.

Sorry to be a debbie downer but I have grave concerns about the long term viability of firefox.

Sites obviously don’t test against ff anymore with more and more bugs appearing in more and more sites.

I have to daily drive both ungoogled-chromium and librewolf and sadly, the number of things I need to do in chromium is increasing week by week.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s been a very well published and discussed process.

There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is …

google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can’t just re-enable it.

Even though most users don’t self host, the ability to still gives users more agency even if they choose not to.

Its a bit like using open source software even if you can’t understand the source code. The open source influences the behavior of the admins. That’s exactly what’s going on here really.

This drama wouldn’t exist on a closed source platform because we probably wouldn’t know about it.

The fediverse seems to have a real penchant for petty drama.

I’m not saying that’s what this is, just that when there’s a spat it tends to draw everyone in.

I’m not sure I really understand you.

One of the foundational concepts of opensource software, self hosting, and federated software, is that users have more equity and agency than they would if they were users or “consumers” on a corporate platform.

If you don’t want to support the behavior of a developer, you don’t have to.

That said, I’m aware that my instance is running piefed, which is at the centre of this drama.

There’s this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.

I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it’s porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.

The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.