Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global - Engadget
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The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.

The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
    25·
    15 hours ago

    Well more competition is good and we really need more alternative platforms. Can they make a browser as an alternative to chrome… Or push Firefox?

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      15 hours ago

      Honestly not sure why more people don’t use Firefox. It’s brilliant, especially with uBlock and Sponsorblock added.

      • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Most people on their phones use the default browser, either Chrome or whatever Chromium-based the manufacturer includes. But otherwise it’s the browser included with the Facebook app, as some are literally locked into the Facebook-and-Youtube walled garden.

      • canthangmightstain@lemmy.todayEnglish
        101·
        13 hours ago

        2 reasons imo.

        1. Chrome inertia. Everyone who’s locked into it from the says it was legitimately faster.
        2. Every time it gets mentioned, it’s supporters like to “no true Scotsman” the original project and suggest their preferred fork instead.
      • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        I think being the only browser with a credible stance on ad blockers will help them in the long run.

        • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          11 hours ago

          There might not be a long run if google can dictate web development enough in the short term to essentially kill off all competition.

      • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        I use it and I install it on every family and work PC I can but the memory of the bloated Firefox that made so many originally switch to chrome is still there. I want apple to base their browser on Firefox to maybe get some traction back

            • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Yeah but if you need to use a browser are you seriously going to support Google over Mozilla?

              • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                6 hours ago

                no, but we weren’t talking about that. the topic was “why more people don’t use Firefox” I’m replying to you in Librewolf. I still don’t have to like Firefox, nor recommend it to people at this point.

                  • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                    1·
                    6 hours ago

                    I don’t really care. :)

                    Edit: There are other options than just Chrome and Firefox even without the forks. Most people just don’t wanna use them.

        • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          What direction is that? I haven’t been keeping up, I just use the browser.

          • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            pro-AI for starters, lots of people aren’t happy with that. (this is related to the AI, but started long before then: ) their insistence on focusing on anything else but the actual browser, Firefox also occasionally changes (privacy related) settings after upgrade (Edit: as reported by users online) or when they installed extensions remotely to people’s browsers as part of some kind of promo (I believe it was Mr. Robot?).

            There might be more, but this is what I can think of from the top of my head.

            Edit: typos