Comment on Why I recommend against Brave.

• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  niche:

  relating to or aimed at a small specialized group or market

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  Do you see LibreWolf on here? Do you see Brave on here? Do you see Vanadium on here?

  Even Firefox, of which LibreWolf is essentially a reskin of, is at 2.6% and considered niche

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• NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Remember that, by virtue of us being here on Lemmy and talking about all of this, we are also a niche group of people. We don’t represent the average person, even if we might be the ones who influence them with our knowledge.

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  • kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    absolutely. people gotta realize when they put themselves in a bubble and not project that experience outwards to everyone else

    there’s a word for this… lemme see if i can find it

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

    The curse of knowledge, also called the curse of expertise[1] or expert’s curse, is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge.[2]

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