Exactly. Yes, I know they claim it’s just the UI, and the sole purpose of closed-source code is to make it harder to steal innovative UI elements - but when it comes to something as sensitive as the browser, I’d like for these claims to be verifiable.

Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don’t know what it does behind the scenes

I haven’t in years anyway

Exactly why they can pull off anything like that. People who still stay with Chrome are mostly those who’ll eat it up anyway.

Nice!

I only do self-hosting for personal/family purposes, and both my mother and my girlfriend have access to all the family-related data.

My personal stuff will go with me to the grave, but I doubt they need prints of my thesis and stuff like that.

Loops.

However, of a dozen instances that exist, only the main one - loops.video - functions well and serves a diversity of content. It’s still in heavy development, but technically, ActivityPub is already included.

Also PeerTube

The community push, mainly. But there seemed to be a PR campaign to capitalize on it. I don’t know if there were official adverts.

There already are quite a few instances actually, but they’re all trash tier for now, except for the dev-operated loops.video

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn’t have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.

Protests tank the economy and affect diplomatic relations. With enough organizational support they can also grow into strikes.