Worst thing about this is that China gets to point fingers and claim racism while all East Asians abroad are lumped in with the CCP collaborators.
neutron
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The Chinese logic is that they have enough domestic market to isolate themselves and shield from international pressure, economical or political. It's been working for them since their homegrown platforms like wechat and weibo are big enough to sustain themselves.
It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.
I never liked the normalization of sharing real names online. I always received weird looks for not doing this. The furthest I could do was using an initial.
I've made the switch over a decade ago. Ubuntu was the gateway drug. I have to use windows at work, but that's it.
I'm guessing there's a reduced pool of desktop pc users, thus Linux users are now slightly bigger in proportion? There has been big advances regarding Linux adoption, too.
Librewolf has AppImage on their webpage, too. Does it not fit your use case?
I assume there are more issues preventing them from simply relocating to another hosting?
Social pressure is a real thing. I wonder just how many people in the US have iphones because of that dumb blue-green bubble stuff.
It's both a generational shift and education issue.
I grew up remembering the early days of going online. The only pc at home was shared by family, so I knew early on that covering my tracks (erasing browser history) was important. When Chrome came out and incognito mode became a thing, I instinctively knew that it was just a shortcut for a separate browser profile that does not share the main profiles cookies and history, that it didn't store activities on the local device. I knew that internet providers could still know what I acceded, and so on.
I can't ask for the same kind of awareness for people that grew up with smartphones, proprietary walled gardens and apps with most of the complexities hidden beneath pretty UI.
It's even worse when it comes to the general population - this isn't the 90s where college students and tech minded people made up the internet users, this isn't the early 2000s where people still had to use a desktop PC to access the web, with its components more or less open to tinker.
Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.
Back in the day I used Mod Organizer + F4SE so I could avoid the official launcher and all the bs that came with it.