I wonder if people that JavaScript is indirectly named from an ethnic group in Indonesia.

Javanese ethnic -> Java Island -> Javanese coffee -> Java programming language -> JavaScript

Upload them to YouTube or Bilibili. Japanese music fandom tends to archive everything that not available anymore on YouTube and rarely get taken down.

That way, newer generation can discover them. Just like city pop.

Most of actively maintained extension are from Keiyoushi, which is open source and community maintained.

It has 1300+ extension from various sites and platform across diverse languages.

As much as I love Linux for mobile idea, it doesn’t have a lot of apps that people rely, like banking or government related stuff.

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I mean for digital content. I live in Indonesia, and majority of people cannot afford to pay digital service, but an ads of foods or essential stuff works.

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Instead of car, people of my country usually able to drive motorcycle.

But not me. I’d rather take my bicycle. I don’t want to deal with cost of maintaining motorcycle.

Japan has so many unique store that operated in their country with region-locked apps/games.

As far as I remember, even DMM and DLsite already has their own game store on Android.

This is truly a win for Japanese customer and company.

Vintage Story

Basically MInecraft for grown ups, also Native Linux available.

So, it’s Servo?

https://servo.org/

It’s also written in Rust.

…I think the previous comment is mistyping LMMS software to LLM.

I recall randomly check open source project and some of them has German public funding.

Clip Studio Paint IIt was way ahead than any commercial or FOSS alternative. Especially if you’re illustrator or comic artist working in specialized workflow (East Asia and SEA industry).

Tried Krita back then, but still lacks a lot of major important feature and customizable UI layout.

Heliboard language supports is limited, not on par with Google or Microsoft Android keyboard unfortunately. Especially for non-alphabet language.

Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!

For an OS that you need to install manually, it’s definitely a lot.

They don’t need to get big like Meta or any Western social media.

They simply need to serve their targeted demography well to be able to survive. A lot of East Asian platform doing basically that, still alive even after a 15+ years.

Local social media is different from bigger social media platform.

Those big social media generally are American/Western-centric. Sure, you can find local community on them, but their moderation system are often still Western-centric.

You’ll surprised on how often other language being moderated (deleted/removed) because it mistaken as hate speech. For example, word that in certain language has neutral meaning, but mistaken as offensive in English.

Also, local social media often designed to local culture. Xiaohongshu and Plurk are the primary example. Entirely unique UI and user experience.

Even fediverse also this cultural-focused software. Take a look on Misskey (a Japanese-made fediverse software), it primarily designed for Japanese internet culture, which entirely different from Mastodon or Pleroma.

ActivityPub is not designed for real time chat and communication, I believe.

There’s Matrix and XMPP protocol, but upcoming MLS protocol (which backed Mozilla, The Matrix.org Foundation, even Meta) looks more complete, feature-wise.