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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

the hateful browser

Holy shit man imagine if we judged every huge project by one asshole at the top. There wouldn't be a single thing to enjoy in this world.

Edit:

I am going to add more perspective to this, because holy shit people are so into eating nothing burgers.

Reddit/Twitter was a database and API that everyone was centralized onto, there was no choice. Brave you can literally fork because its open source. Aside from that this was literally the CEO's personal donation of $1000...in like 2014. Almost 10 yrs ago.

Elon, as CEO and on the X/Twitter brand:

Meanwhile Brendan:

Gnubyte

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

No. That is factually wrong. Brave is open source. This is more like if we discovered the creator of mastodon was donating any profits he managed to make to some bigotry party. You wouldn't see me barking down the nice people who host mastodon or contribute to its code.

Separate the patrons, artists and art. Because it is not the same and that logic cuts all sorts of ways.

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