Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivals(devclass.com)

I refuse to believe there exist two pieces of software that are truly for all intents and purposes identical, unless one is a very recent fork of the other.

Both Lemmy and Ladybird are very pointedly not forks of anything.

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org

4 points

6 months ago

Which is unrelated to their point, which is that visible popularity of a piece of software (e.g. having many downloads in an app store) has a large impact on likelihood of people to trust it.

You feigning ignorance at this just discredits your own position. Their question was essentially rhetorical, and you chose to answer it incorrectly rather than concede their correct point:

If you encountered 2 identical pieces of software, you would trust the one that is more popular, thus proving that popularity is a meaningful benefit to a piece of software.

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Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca

3 points

6 months ago

I mean, you can deny the premise all day long, but it will never win you an argument.

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Schmerzbold@feddit.org

3 points

6 months ago

I guess that’s true when you’re a company trying to sell a product. For an open source project more popularity might just mean more hassle. Sure, it may increase your employment opportunities somewhat, but seeing how entitled and demanding users of os-software can be, I’m sure some devs wish their projects were less popular.

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Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca

1 point

6 months ago

Yeah, it EMOTIONALLY supports them. Dude. It’s okay. It also supports the users who get value out of it in actual material ways.

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