Vivaldi Integrates Mastodon In Its Desktop Browser - Slashdot

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  You can put lipstick on a pig... but its still just another Chromium browser. ZZZZZ.

• Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance. And today we are integrating Vivaldi Social into the sidebar of our desktop browser becoming the first browser to offer this functionality.

  (a) More browser bloat.
  (b) Something most users don't need.
  (c) Closer to that "everything app" Musk and other blather about, that no one wants.

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    > We believe in providing alternatives to Big Tech

    I would hardly call Twitter "Big Tech" when you compare it to the privacy invading MAMAA giants. This is a PR stunt where they hope to get all the Twitter haters as new users.

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      Or, more likely, they themselves are woke Musk haters.

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    Something to bear in mind is that Mastodon is actually just the name of a set of technologies built around ActivityPub, which in turn is intended to be a replacement for RSS.

    Building an RSS reader into a web browser wouldn't be considered "browser bloat" by most Slashdotters, not even in 2022 when RSS is poorly supported by the fediverse at large.

    I think it's a positive thing to get support around ActivityPub, both because it gets us closer to getting a "Google Reader" replacement, and because it also

    • Re: In other words ...

      "While youâ(TM)ll find Vivaldi Social in the Panel of the browser, you can also add any Mastodon instance of your choice as a Web Panel to this sidebar. By doing so, the website or any Mastodon instance is displayed within the side panel of your browser, creating a split-screen view. "

      I suppose this includes President Trump's "Truth Social", as it is a Mastodon instance!

• I really like Vivaldi, it's my primary non-Safari browser.

  However I fear only maybe 10 people run it, so I don't know how much this integration will really help Mastodon out.

  Still, I applaud them for trying and will check out the interface and see how they did. I never did like most Mastodon UI much at all.

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    "I really like Vivaldi, it's my primary non-Safari browser."
    Imagine thinking that there is a need for multiple "non-Safari" browsers, much less declaring one of them your "primary". About as useful as emacs is to an IOS developer, right SuperKendall?

    "...so I don't know how much this integration will really help Mastodon out."
    Is it supposed to "help Mastadon out"? Isn't it, at least at face value, intended to be a feature for Vivaldi users?

    "Still, I applaud them for trying and will check out the interface

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      Imagine thinking that there is a need for multiple "non-Safari" browsers

      It's not so much there is a need for a "Non safari" based browser.

      Instead the truth is at times there is a need for *A* Chrome-based browser, because some website designers are incompetent.

      I prefer not to use Google applications if possible, thus - Vivaldi.

      Is it supposed to "help Mastadon out"?

      Gonna give you a SUPER DUH on that one.

      Stay retarded! Never Change!

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    I like it too. The one feature that keeps me coming back to Vivaldi is that the UI is so customizable, for 2022 anyways: remove buttons you don't use, add buttons you do use-hide or show what you use or don't use. Not as customizable as browsers and applications from 20 years ago were, but a hell of alot more customizable than Firefox and a hell of a hell of alot more than Safari and most other applications with their stupid & short-sighted one-size-fits-all locked-up UI designs.

    If Vivaldi would simp

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      The one feature that keeps me coming back to Vivaldi is that the UI is so customizable

      I've not explored that, thanks. Will have to clean up the UI.

      If Vivaldi would simply just add an option to disable autoplay of videos and audio I'd be using it most of the time.

      Yeah would love to know how to do that.

• It doesnt do anything other than put a default button for its mastadon servers website in the side bar thingy.

  the exact same result is achieved if you just add any mastadon site into the side bar there, and its no different now than it was before they 'integrated' it.

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    Definitely out of Opera's "Now With Twitter and Facebook Integration!!" (we threw a couple favicons on the sidebar) playbook. Which I guess makes sense considering Vivaldi's pedigree.

• I've never used it, I thought a mastadon was an extinct wooly elephant like a mammoth.

• "Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services." - Wikipedia

  • Re: What is Mastodon?

    What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...
• Step one on how to get me not to use your browser, stuff unneeded bullshit into it by default.

• Really tired of the lame viral marketing for an unsafe social platform operated by dubious, unaccountable internet warlords.

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    That would be Facebook and Twitter. Mastodon is software that allows you to run your own social media system and integrate with others doing the same, using ActivityPub. It's a good thing. You should try it out.