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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • I had never heard of Waterfox before seeing this post. I went and checked it out. Basically, their “thing” seems to be that they have Firefox’s privacy settings automatically defaulted to stronger settings, yet still mild enough for normal web browsing (it won’t break as many websites as when you have Firefox fired up on all privacy cylinders, I guess?).

    They also have incognito tabs instead of just incognito windows.

    Other than that, I don’t see any differences in the GUI for ease of use.










  • So, the thing about the federated system, is that the server loads are distributed among the different instances that are run by individuals. This way, no one instance gets too big to afford to sustain itself.

    But yeah, basically donations are what any instance will likely be run off of. I’m sure there will be people trying to profit off of it somehow, by charging people for accounts, maybe, at some point. Or running ads, etc. But as it is right now, I believe the idea is to have this system be free and sustained through donations.

    *edit: The best way to get an answer to a question is to confidently post an incorrect answer and let someone correct you. :)