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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical โ€“ and often distinctively European โ€“ alternatives

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[โ€“] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's really just indicative of the author being unfamiliar with open source projects and their general structure - which is fine.

LibreWolf (as far as I can see) has a fairly standard OSS team structure - project lead/admin, several major contributing coders, a few notable prior contributors, and of course dozens of contributors of small pull requests. They do explain on their homepage that they're "largely a community-driven project", so if I was a journo I'd just refer to them as the 'LibreWolf team'.