Firefox is itself someone deciding to make their own fork of mozilla. Maybe we need to do it again every ten years.

What? Firefox (or really Firebird before the rename) came internally from Mozilla way when it got its start (when Netscape was still around) in an attempt to make a scaled down, "just the browser" version of the entire Netscape Communicator/Mozilla suite.

If an intern and a guy who quit Netscape and had been working at Apple for two years is internal, then I need to go back to school and learn words.

I'm happy that somebody is trying to create a new browser -- even though some people say it's impossible nowadays.

But FUTO sponsoring that project gives bad vibes.

Why? You’re referring to tue club that makes Immich, right? What’s so bad about them?

I also love Immich, but it seems like there's some controversy about FUTO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666239

Appreciate the response. I read the Devault rant. It’s not clear to me that the guy behind FUTO is actively evil, seems more like he’s trying his best and still figuring that whole “being a semi public figure funding stuff” thing out.

Drew’s position that interacting with people with bad opinions makes you evil by association doesn’t strike me as mainstream (or future-proof for that matter).

How is Drew not banned on here? You can't even talk about his obsession with .. "Japaneses child art" let's say .. without it getting flagged and removed. (This comment will get flagged). Meanwhile other people who lean slightly right are totally shadowbanned.

Devault is not a good actor. Everything he says comes out of jealousy and spite.

No, it doesn't. People complaining about someone talking x or y funding is "bad vibes." Why does everything have to turn into ideological BS?

Look, Wikimedia is an evil, biased, insane organization that grifts for money and gives to absolutely insane causes, but if they gave me a few thousand for an open source project, would I turn them down? No. I'd never give them money, but it's not going to prevent me from using their services either (using LibRedirect + a Wikiless instance to avoid tracking and their ads of course).