Even if there was any truth to this, a good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics.

The WordPress “spokesperson” is exactly as butthurt as you’d expect:

we continue to protect the open source ecosystem

lol.

Federation (which Bluesky also strives to achieve) is not something that you’ll even notice once registered, and the lack of users (and thus content) is a self-fulfilling prophecy, don’t you think?

They are not.

That’s mostly a Mastodon thing. Part of the reason why Mastodon has a weird reputation is that you are more than encouraged to label your posts there, or there WILL be comments.

Yes (somewhat), just like you can post on Lemmy with Honk, but note that all ActivityPub software, while speaking the same protocol, interacts best with its own kind. Yet.

Narrator: they will not

Netsurf uses its own renderer.

Yes, there are three engines since 20 years

If, and only if, you skip NetSurf’s own one and Dillo’s own one and the numerous text-mode engines like GNU Emacs’s one, w3m et cetera, this number might be close to the whole truth. But I don’t see why you would do that.

Awesome, thank you. It was even installed on my system!

Maybe because it’s already old enough to not be “cool” anymore. Anyway, one of the reasons why I keep mentioning it is to reverse this noise.

Which is a less portable, less complete implementation of this one.

I am excited to see a new competitor

I wish more people would help NetSurf development instead of joining the Ladybird bandwagon. Ladybird is basically a less portable, less complete NetSurf.

But a browser engine is an absurdly huge piece of software and it will be a miracle if projects like Rust (or Ladybird, which I just learned it’s targeting its first alpha for… 2026!) get backed by big corporations and their pace gets quicker.

NetSurf already does everything that Ladybird promises - and it has done that for years. Just saying.

this is why there are only three engines out there

No.

I like that the developer actually supports systems without Docker. I wish that would be more common these days.

I wish someone would develop a tool that would allow me to remove the annoying foreground noise from podcasts ;-)

Honestly, what I use is not what I would recommend. ;-) My own setup follows these directions (TL;DR: OpenBSD, as much OOTB OpenBSD software as possible, and Dovecot.)

I am happy to recommend it to others.

If they ever support non-Docker systems again, I might be curious. Right now, I couldn’t even use that.

Note that you don’t know what the hosters know, store and/or sell about you.