First sentence, last sentence, skip the rest.

The WordPress “spokesperson” is exactly as butthurt as you’d expect:

we continue to protect the open source ecosystem

lol.

Federation (which Bluesky also strives to achieve) is not something that you’ll even notice once registered, and the lack of users (and thus content) is a self-fulfilling prophecy, don’t you think?

They are not.

That’s mostly a Mastodon thing. Part of the reason why Mastodon has a weird reputation is that you are more than encouraged to label your posts there, or there WILL be comments.

Yes (somewhat), just like you can post on Lemmy with Honk, but note that all ActivityPub software, while speaking the same protocol, interacts best with its own kind. Yet.

Narrator: they will not

Netsurf uses its own renderer.

Have you tried to make your point without comparing the people first? It could help.

I can both engage in the issue and try to point out bigotry about it online. The sheer fact that the post only talks about “violence against women” instead of “violence itself” makes comments like mine necessary, I’m afraid. It’s saddening to see that not all violence is condemned with the same energy by some.

You obviously don’t give a shit enough to become an activist for your own opinions

No, you are wrong. However, it is perfectly reasonable to be an activist and still post on social media sometimes.

unrelated

Also no.

Yes, there are three engines since 20 years

If, and only if, you skip NetSurf’s own one and Dillo’s own one and the numerous text-mode engines like GNU Emacs’s one, w3m et cetera, this number might be close to the whole truth. But I don’t see why you would do that.

Awesome, thank you. It was even installed on my system!

The issue is mentioned in the text accompanying the post:

Activists have called on the government to do more to end violence against women.

I wish ‘activists’ would finally stop asking which gender the victim belongs to first in their fight against violence.

Maybe because it’s already old enough to not be “cool” anymore. Anyway, one of the reasons why I keep mentioning it is to reverse this noise.

Which is a less portable, less complete implementation of this one.

I am excited to see a new competitor

I wish more people would help NetSurf development instead of joining the Ladybird bandwagon. Ladybird is basically a less portable, less complete NetSurf.

But a browser engine is an absurdly huge piece of software and it will be a miracle if projects like Rust (or Ladybird, which I just learned it’s targeting its first alpha for… 2026!) get backed by big corporations and their pace gets quicker.

NetSurf already does everything that Ladybird promises - and it has done that for years. Just saying.

this is why there are only three engines out there

No.

I like that the developer actually supports systems without Docker. I wish that would be more common these days.