This is my take too - Google Search and YouTube especially which are owned by Google.
Even if Chrome had like 5% market share, surely they could just push this anyway? While the Chromium monopoly is partially to blame for this, I'd argue the centralisation of the web is as well.
Sure, "Google Search is useless now, you can't find what you want!", but the vast, vast majority of people still and continue to use it, and nothing will change that most likely.
I'm late - it's Friday after all - but I've been trying to look for jobs to get away from where I currently am, but just can't find anything worth it that I could do.
I'm a minimum wage admin worker, at a job where they don't offer WFH, and I'm in an office from 9 to 6 every day.
I just want something with a bit more money, or a bit more time, or something like hybrid remote, but it feels like anything that offers anything beyond the minimum requires extremely specialised qualifications or experience, but I don't have any of this stuff, I've just been a grunt worker my entire life.
I'd love to learn something or pick something up but I'm always at work so feels like I don't have the time to do it - I'm already falling behind on just looking after my house! Job market and career progression seems messed up, but I have no real idea what to do about it.
That's "so few"!?
I've never subscribed to a large amount of things on any platform (whether it's one where you follow people or communities) and I always feel like it gets unwieldy after like... 20 subs. 🤣
I have no idea how you'd manage such a huge list as I already feel like I don't see a lot of content I'd want to see!
The examples you give are bad - in those spaces you are judged on how you look, not your legal gender. Many men and women have been questioned in changing rooms / bathrooms just because of how they look, even if they're cisgender.
So I can't really see how changing your legal gender freely is going to cause issues. There is nobody stopping a man going into a womens changing room or bathroom already.
Well, when it comes to Matrix, they can't really "compromise" in a way that other platforms may be able to, as their protocol is designed to be as private and secure as possible first, then the features come later.
While "nobody cares about privacy" and features are king, I personally have a lot of respect for the Matrix developers for sticking true to their vision instead of compromising for the sake of adoption. Matrix and Element DO want to be feature-rich, but they will only accept things if they work with their principles.
Furthermore, the Matrix team aren't the ones "complaining" about adoption, they're actually quite happy with how much adoption there is - it isn't insignificant as there's over 80 million known accounts, which is much bigger than the ActivityPub social media platforms, and many people use Matrix independently which they can't track.
Would you be able to give any examples? I can't really think of much that would crumble under a self-ID system, and I would suspect there's some restrictions on things like how often you can change, so you don't have people changing for things like government bonuses or whatever might exist.
A lot of other things like "women's shelters" or "men's clubs" tend to be based more on society's view on you as a man/woman rather than any sort of legal check.
Technically the idea is that if Chrome has barely any market share (will never happen, but let's pretend), they cannot implement this as it will anger and lock too many users out of day to day life.
However...
With Google Search and YouTube being by far the most 2 popular websites in the world, I think they still could. The vast majority of people would never give those up and if they're told to use another program to access them, they absolutely will, meaning in an ideal world with a browser competition, they can easily destroy it immediately.
Rained all day Sunday, caused a serious flood in my house, landlord says that nobody will be able to look at it until Friday.
It's scheduled to rain most of the day Wednesday and Thursday, really no idea what I can do here.
Not really - Mastodon is specifically about socialising with people you know, not content groups.
Closest thing is probably https://getstarted.social/, although it looks like the person who runs this site hasn't posted to Mastodon since December so...
You have to realise that to most people, Google is not seen as a bad company - quite the opposite in fact. They have all these "free" products that do everything you need them to, so they've built-up a huge amount of trust with the general population.
Google is obviously trying to take over the web, but the regular person doesn't see this as they don't follow any of this news, nor do they actually care. Google has good, fast, free products, that's all people care about.
The one thing Musk and Spez have successfully done is make themselves scapegoats that leave people believing that everything will be resolved once they leave, so people have hope since there's a "clear solution."
These issues run much deeper than the individual owners and CEOs though, it's the rot of the companies and platforms themselves, and getting rid of those people will solve absolutely nothing.
What needs to happen is for people to just switch off and help grow alternative platforms away from corporate meddling. Will it ever become mainstream? Maybe not, but it will never happen if people never try and just give up.
For what it's worth I'm not saying that - it's just a common argument I've seen online lately in these spaces. I don't actually know if it's true because I don't use Google Search.