State of the Web, circa 2023:
“Would you like to use the browser by Company X, or the browser by the company that survives on half-a-billion dollars a year from Company X, or the browser by the company that gets paid an estimated $20 billion a year by Company X even though it can survive without it?”
We desperately need a web browser by an independent organisation funded by EU taxpayer money and maintained for the common good.
@aral This is exactly the conversation I had with @Patricia a while back https://distributedfutu.re/episode68.html
If I remember correctly maintaining a subscription based fork of either is a Multi million a year commitment - but that just means you need a few million subscribers.
@steely_glint @Patricia We don’t need a few million subscribers, we have 447 million taxpayers.
@aral @steely_glint @Patricia We do? Have we changed EU Treaties? Do we finally have a fiscal union?