We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022.

Jon S. von Tetzchner

We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.

#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/

Vanstra

@jon Keep up the good work!!

David Fleetwood - RG Admin

@jon To be clear I use Vivaldi as a secondary browser, but you are not the opposite of big tech, you would need to be a foundation or similar for that. You also would need to be fully open source and community driven, which you are not.

Of the corporate browsers you are the best, but you are still a corporate browser, with corporate goals, and due to your codebase, assisting Google and Microsoft's goals to capture the web via Chromium.

#vivaldi #OpenSource #BigTech

inthebatcave.uk

@jon yep. I moved here because its easier when your browser logs I as well

Glenmavis

@jon

Ich lese es nicht. Viel zu lang .
Die Kunst des Schreibens ist, auf den Punkt zu kommen.

Madeleine Morris

@jon And... it's an excellent browser. I've been using it for two weeks now and I really like it.

Mastodon Migration

@Remittancegirl @jon

️ What she said. It is terrific!

Evan Prodromou

@jon thank you for your support of the social web.

Owen G. Richards - ANTIFAscist

@jon

I'm giving it a try right now... but the jury is still making up it's mind. Just getting used to it...

T3rc

@mastodonmigration @Remittancegirl @jon I like Vivaldi. I downloaded it about 3 months ago, loved it and even donated 100€.

But then I stumbled on this: https://privacytests.org

I’ve since settled on Mullvad.

Sure, it’s missing a load of features like bookmark sync and password mgmt, plus all the extra Vivaldi goodies, but you can’t argue with privacy.

#mullvad #vpn #browserprivacy #firefox #mullvadbrowser

Ryan Pollard

@jon And this is yet another reason why I use Vivaldi exclusively. Thank you.

Madeleine Morris

@t3rcermillenium

Hmmm. I do hope they will work on improving that. @mastodonmigration @jon

Wiredfire

@t3rcermillenium @mastodonmigration @Remittancegirl @jon I prefer to keep things like bookmarks and passwords agnostic of any browser or platform. Prevents lock-in. I like raindrop.io for passwords and bit warden for passwords suits my risk profile

T3rc

@wiredfire @mastodonmigration @Remittancegirl @jon 100% agree.

Been using keepassx for years (and still do on my iPhone), and have 90% of my passwords there. Just years of using FF means some invariably leaked into the browser pwd mgmt.

Platform lock-in is real. Keepassx allows me to run Linux on my laptop, Windows on the family PC and iOS.

I could probably look at a more modern approach like BitWarden

Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼

@jon You aren't doing shit to stand up to Big Tech. You're building a bloated, proprietary Chromium reskin.

Wiredfire

@t3rcermillenium @mastodonmigration @Remittancegirl @jon
I used keepassx for many years. It's a fantastic system. Eventually hit a couple of file sync headaches (not even slightly the fault of keepass) so migrated to Bitwarden for the balance of security vs convenience.

Oblomov

@jon a bit off topic, but there's apparently some weird interaction between blog federation, quote toots and some Mastodon version: the blog post QTed in your post appears as “removed by its author” even though I can actually load it in my instance and it shows up properly quoted on your instance (see attached screenshot).

cc @pfefferle since my understanding is that the Vivaldi blog is WordPress