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Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
(blog.cloudflare.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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What about servo?
Perhaps Servo isn't apolitical enough. ๐ฅน
Remember, technology is political and our major technology-related problems are political, not technological. We wouldn't be building alternative browsing engines if Chromium was a community-built project, unaffiliated with an ad company.
E: FWIW, this comment suggest the initial political Ladybird snafu may have been remediated.
I think that kinda weird and bad statement from the ladybird lead makes way more sense when you realize that his first language is german.
German, like other gendered languages, uses the male gender for an unknown person, using a genderless pronoun like "they" in german is a deliberate political stance that would prompt debate and is unusual and, frankly, weird, since the male pronoun is used as a neutral one.
Given that he apologized and changed it to they later, and no other incident of the sort happened since, I personally am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The ladybird contributing guidelines currently read:
It was pointed out and could have been corrected easily, nobody was accusing them of doing it intentionally. Instead they doubled down, which then did show their views and caused the controversy.
He may rejected the pr initially, but he later apologized and changed it. Again, I don't see the issue, my original comment explains why that doesn't seem that bad in my view.
After a large backlash, yes.
It's all resolved now and I do support the project, we need another browser engine. But to not see the issue at all...? An issue resolved doesn't mean the issue didn't exist.
Did you read my original comment or just skim it? Because it that one I explain why I think it's not an issue.
And I explained that I disagree that it "wasnt that bad". It absolutely was an issue and it was handled poorly. Without the backlash, I highly doubt they would have changed their mind.