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)

  • canthangmightstain@lemmy.today
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    1 day 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.
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      9 hours ago

      No true Scotsman is one of the biggest reasons open source anything struggles to catch on. Normal users never have any fucking idea what to do and everyone always just screeches forks of forks of forks and then the normal users just get paralyzed. Lol