Because I want to control my own computer. I had to pay for the device, so I should be treated as the owner, yet Microsoft and Apple act like they own people’s computers, and build software that treats the computer as property of those corporations.
I don’t like tinkering just to get stuff working, so I use more user-friendly Linux distributions, and it’s been very smooth.
https://sepiasearch.org/ is a multi-instance search for PeerTube.
The real security hole is how much information the browser gives to the web server. The only thing a web server needs to know is what content the user is looking for, but sadly web browser send a ton of identifying information to the point where it’s become expected behaviour and some websites won’t work without it.
How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?
Upvotes/downvotes are unfortunately a fundamentally flawed concept. They originally served as an superior alternative to forums’ previous sorting method of most-recently commented, but they are far from flawless themselves.
My ideal alternative would be some kind of customisable sort order chosen by the user that uses some kind of sentiment analysis of the text to find the kind of posts the user is interested in. For example, you could sort by whether post look serious or joking, how long they are, ratio of words to hyperlinks, etc. Could also filter out ragebait and similar rubbish.
Of course I can see downsides - performance considerations, and it would only work for text posts and comments, but it’s just an idea off the top of my head.
The main differences are:
Browsers should be designed from the start for the benefit of the users. There are too many “features” that only benefit the server owners. It’s been this way for a long time. Like the “Referer” header. Old as dirt, but how do I benefit from telling a server what page I was visiting beforehand?
The root of the issue is this idea that a web browser should be an “everything app” that can basically recreate the functionality of any other app on the system. It’s total feature creep, and in addition to privacy issues, creates a barrier-to-entry that makes it very hard for people to create new browsers because of the sheer amount of features they’re expected to implement.
Not the Internet, but rather the World Wide Web. The once-humble webpage has become such a complex stack of technologies that it’s impossible for small dev teams to make alternatives to the established web browsers.