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Google is limiting the capability of Chromium. Is it because Chromium-based browsers have started to eat into Google Chrome's marketshare?

The inherent problem with creating a new browser/platform is getting people to create addons/extensions for it.

If you don’t think Google could do this, think again. Google has an iron grip on the Chromium project.

From the beginning of its time with Google, Android was touted as THE open-source phone operating system. The Android Open Source Project was used by several projects to create their own version of Android.

Then at a certain point, Google introduced an app called Google Play Services. This app is not open source and contains all of the stuff you need to access Google’s services.

  • Adda
    2•3 years ago

    I agree. This is exactly what was missing in my reply and I should have thought about that. Having an option to escape walled gardens is just as important, even if for example Gemini is not sufficient to replace the modern Web entirely.

    You could mirror lemmy on gemini

    Ye, but not communicate easily, allow multiple users to post etc. In general, if I am not mistaken, the problem with Gemini would be its passive, read-only nature from the point of view of a capsule’s visitor (not creator).

    • ufra
      1•3 years ago

      In terms of interactivity, I need to look more into this bliz. I don’t know what it is capable of, but maybe some limited form of a comment section could be implemented

      Bliz is an extension to text files to allow interpolated shell scripting - in this case, the fish shell. Of course, the shell can call any other program to embed content from.

      It’s intended to be used to generate gemtext dynamically, but it can just as easily generate any kind of text file.

      https://lemmy.ml/post/52524

      bliz: Incredibly easy, interpolated server-side scripting for Gemini

      https://sr.ht/~cadence/bliz/

      example of submitting a search: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gus.guru/search%3Flemmy

      more on cgi: https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemlikes

      • Adda
        2•3 years ago

        OK, that seems interesting. Maybe Gemini could be capable of even more than I anticipated then. Will have to look into that.