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I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:

Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how “Lemmy integration in the browser” could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I’m missing something.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yeah, something like 50k users is a drop in the bucket. It’s a nice size for a community, but not big enough to warrant a browser feature.

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Vipsu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well since they were/are hosting Mastodon instance they do seem to have some interest in the fediverse. They do also have official plugins.

Personally I feel something like this could be the next step for social link aggregation and discussion platforms. Being able to share and discuss on about videos and articles without having to register to dozens or more pages while also having some control over the people you interract with through instances, subscribed communities etc.

Source media would also be unable to control what can or cannot be discussed. Many youtube videos and news articles for example may block all comments. It would be up to community on how to moderate discussion.

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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

plugin/extension

that seems like the way to go for this

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