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Am engineer. Know zero professional people in the engineering community who use AI browsers, and very few who even touch AI for anything aside from docs or stats.
In my personal life I know zero people who use these browsers. I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing or is about, even.
Start making tools to give to people to combat this bullshit from the EU. Build a USABLE and decentralized chat app that people can actually use FFS. Build something like Proton and ACTUALLY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.
Others have eaten your lunch because of this exact thing. Do better.
It's not panic, it's consequence of networking and a very specific culture having formed for CEOs and such.
A bit like Silicon Valley tech bros, they think they are the chosen ones leading the charge and able to make decisions for all of us, sort of aristocracy.
So in their circles it's fashion now to play this "AI" thing.
And mechanisms to remove those fools from places they don't belong to and make them clean streets have rotten.
Usable and decentralized - well, you'll need some beyond-the-horizon planning for how the development of that will go on. Because 90s Web was kinda normal too, except there were future stages.
You need something that's usable almost from the beginning, but that is also usable for everything you haven't yet thought about. Something that allows any use, but doesn't limit any, even needed only by a handful of people, task.
You need universal open infrastructure. Something allowing to pool public service trackers, storage services, relay services, notification services, key services, search services, but tying them into specific applications on the client. Different applications, over the common high-level medium (of authors and messages and groups, for example ; perhaps subscriptions). And you need that to be untrusted and backed up by DHT and sneakernet as perfectly functional alternative ways for the same system. You need them all.
And you need means of development with higher common, basic level. You need something like Hypercard on the clients, so that development in this "alternative Web" were accessible in its full power. With "cards" shared like messages. That'd be similar to how we fetch different websites.
Messages and people and groups would have global identifiers, tied to cryptography. One could have sort of "permission rule" messages to be interpreted by clients to decide, during "replaying" a group with its messages, which action was valid and which wasn't, and what can this specific user do to the group at this specific moment.
There could be different types of messages, perhaps with references to "interpreter" messages containing scripts.
OK. That's just a pet dream of mine, but I don't yet have a full picture in my mind.
I miss HyperCard.