i wonder if Kojima is also hated by his (current and) former employees like Kamiya (self admitted in interview in Unseen games YouTube channel)

dirt on water? mud?

unfortunately, Japan companies notoriously don’t give a shit about earning money by making their fans (especially international fans) happy.

generally Japan companies’ main motivation for fandom is to create niche one-off experiences in inconvenient locations at inconvenient times in a way that only Japan residents with lots of free time and disposable income can participate. because that makes those participants feel special and elite in an exclusive secret “ultra rich aristocratic” feeling club.

Japan society rarely gives residents the feeling of being special and valued in social groups or even family, so they feel strongly enough to spend and charge exorbitantly for the experience.

don’t be like one of the now!now!now! types (i.e. OP) and treat every new discovery (personal first encounters with existing tech, situations) as the final nail in the coffin. there are other messengers available while waiting for signal to change.

just saying, acknowledge that many others have arrived at the same problem years before you and they are not your enemy. so yelling at the choir is counter productive.

thousands of threads on this topic since decades ago.

it’s an eternal debate (since signal has no plans to change)

just read the history and join the rest of us waiting for them to change. using signal before that change is completely optional. go ahead and don’t use it. no problem.

opening the discussion again is just tiring.

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kana flick was non-negotiable for me so, while im not proud of it, for now I’m using ms swiftkey in incognito, no Google play, network permission revoked (capability of Graphene OS).

another reason i chose it is handwriting input for Chinese.

anyway this is just until fcitx implements kana flick, per below issues.

• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/375 merged to
• https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android/issues/377

other kana flick options:

• i also tried Simeji keyboard but deleted when i found out it was owned by bytedance… or was it Alibaba
• another is Takt (タクト) keyboard which is closed source but claims to have directly adapted Mozc code for modern android. YMMV… personally i couldn’t use it cuz the flick sensitivity and other ux elements were too far out of my comfort zone.

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that’s not news…

sell valnet! every one of those! sell nyt and wapo and Google and Yahoo!

sell everything!

sell the verge too! all those crappy vox family sites!

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exactly. thank you. this is the whole impetus for the conversation of what happens to Firefox and consequently its forks.

underlying assumptions:

• many privacy-minded users use Firefox forks on desktop and possibly mobile. Without Mozilla the organization, said forks may or may not be able to continue individually on their own. However, it seems hard to argue that they would fare better if a “main” Firefox continued, possibly under the umbrella of some pre-existing group like Canonical or Linux Foundation. Better yet if Mozilla were to reverse course from its user data cash-in moves and increase its long-term stability.

seems like you’re the one who understood best what I was getting at. thanks for your opinion.

i do hope they have enough budget

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular.

like you said, i actually was thinking of them capturing about 5-10% more of the market. i think that would be a significant and worthy goal. it’s enough to increase interest from potential large donors, at least slightly.

I’ve been feeling that they were getting ready to turn FF into something more commercial, and if that didn’t stabilize/increase funding enough, to shut it down entirely. so a slight and sustainable increase of users and funding is the best near term outcome, in my mind.

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular. i used “stable” (as in user numbers) multiple times.

true that