Vivaldi Integrates Mastodon In Its Desktop Browser 23
Vivaldi recently became the first browser to have its own Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social. Now, the new version on the desktop is the first to integrate Mastodon into the browser itself, along with the ability to pin tab groups and other UI improvements. From a blog post: We believe in providing alternatives to Big Tech while putting your privacy first and launched Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance. And today we are integrating Vivaldi Social into the sidebar of our desktop browser becoming the first browser to offer this functionality.
The new version -- Vivaldi 5.6 -- also allows you to pin your tab stacks. We've added a new private search engine You.com for select countries, helping to broaden your choices for searching the web. Vivaldi's sidebar of icons links to a number of utility functions. And now it integrates Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance.
The new version -- Vivaldi 5.6 -- also allows you to pin your tab stacks. We've added a new private search engine You.com for select countries, helping to broaden your choices for searching the web. Vivaldi's sidebar of icons links to a number of utility functions. And now it integrates Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance.
Chromium (Score:2)
You can put lipstick on a pig... but its still just another Chromium browser. ZZZZZ.
In other words ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance. And today we are integrating Vivaldi Social into the sidebar of our desktop browser becoming the first browser to offer this functionality.
(a) More browser bloat.
(b) Something most users don't need.
(c) Closer to that "everything app" Musk and other blather about, that no one wants.
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FTFA
> We believe in providing alternatives to Big Tech
I would hardly call Twitter "Big Tech" when you compare it to the privacy invading MAMAA giants. This is a PR stunt where they hope to get all the Twitter haters as new users.
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Or, more likely, they themselves are woke Musk haters.
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Re: In other words ... (Score:1)
Chromium based browser + pointless foof (Score:2)
Slow news day detected.
Seems good but not sure it will move the needle. (Score:3)
I really like Vivaldi, it's my primary non-Safari browser.
However I fear only maybe 10 people run it, so I don't know how much this integration will really help Mastodon out.
Still, I applaud them for trying and will check out the interface and see how they did. I never did like most Mastodon UI much at all.
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"I really like Vivaldi, it's my primary non-Safari browser."
Imagine thinking that there is a need for multiple "non-Safari" browsers, much less declaring one of them your "primary". About as useful as emacs is to an IOS developer, right SuperKendall?
"...so I don't know how much this integration will really help Mastodon out."
Is it supposed to "help Mastadon out"? Isn't it, at least at face value, intended to be a feature for Vivaldi users?
"Still, I applaud them for trying and will check out the interface
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Imagine thinking that there is a need for multiple "non-Safari" browsers
It's not so much there is a need for a "Non safari" based browser.
Instead the truth is at times there is a need for *A* Chrome-based browser, because some website designers are incompetent.
I prefer not to use Google applications if possible, thus - Vivaldi.
Is it supposed to "help Mastadon out"?
Gonna give you a SUPER DUH on that one.
Stay retarded! Never Change!
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I like it too. The one feature that keeps me coming back to Vivaldi is that the UI is so customizable, for 2022 anyways: remove buttons you don't use, add buttons you do use-hide or show what you use or don't use. Not as customizable as browsers and applications from 20 years ago were, but a hell of alot more customizable than Firefox and a hell of a hell of alot more than Safari and most other applications with their stupid & short-sighted one-size-fits-all locked-up UI designs.
If Vivaldi would simp
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The one feature that keeps me coming back to Vivaldi is that the UI is so customizable
I've not explored that, thanks. Will have to clean up the UI.
If Vivaldi would simply just add an option to disable autoplay of videos and audio I'd be using it most of the time.
Yeah would love to know how to do that.
Integrates is a bit of an overstatement (Score:4, Informative)
It doesnt do anything other than put a default button for its mastadon servers website in the side bar thingy.
the exact same result is achieved if you just add any mastadon site into the side bar there, and its no different now than it was before they 'integrated' it.
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Mastadon (Score:2)
I've never used it, I thought a mastadon was an extinct wooly elephant like a mammoth.
What is Mastodon? (Score:2)
Re: What is Mastodon? (Score:2)
MORE BULLSHIT! (Score:2)
HEY GUYS DID YOU HEAR ABOUT MASTADON (Score:2)
Really tired of the lame viral marketing for an unsafe social platform operated by dubious, unaccountable internet warlords.
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Two options present themselves for the interested Mastadon apprentice:
1) Run your own instance. Presumably doable for the average Slashdot denizen, but nontrivial if your goal is just to "be on social media". This is more like a thing you do as a hobby if you're really into something.
2) Get on someone else's instance. There's a whole realm of problems here, but they all boil down to the fact that other peoples Mastadon instances are unregulated fiefdoms that quite often represent essentially the distilled d