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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All browsers are either based on Chrome or Firefox. There's no alternative.

[–] merc 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Safari use a different codebase? It's not available on non-Apple platforms, but it's good to know that there are still engineers working on a different codebase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Chrome is definitely a fork of Safari in a way. Or more accurately, Blink is a fork of Webkit.

[–] merc 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So really, all modern browsers are either forks of KHTML / KJS or are based on the Mozilla codebase. But, at least right now, there are 3 separate engineering teams working on 3 independent codebases. Which hopefully will mitigate some of the issues you get when one company completely controls a software "ecosystem".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, there’s Chromium and then there’s Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

All browsers are either based on KHTML or Netscape. There's no alternative.

You see that's a sort of weird way of looking at it?