Normally these kind of announcements come with some kind of explanation. The lack of one reflects very poorly on Mozilla and leads me to assume the worst.
I have a feeling it's so they can use the money for more AI garbage. They've been heading in that direction lately, so it wouldn't surprise me.
Honestly I'm starting to think that their "experiments" are more about chasing trends than actually trying to provide good products and services for their users.
Well that’s lame.
The replies are a prime example of the fediverse microblogging sphere's greatest qualities.
This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.
Like what qualities?
I'm sorry, banana, that was sarcasm. I saw nothing I'd call a quality.
I never interacted with mozilla.social, but I wonder if they considered organising mozilla.social through a connected volunteer association, before deciding to shutdown.
Managing unpaid volunteers is its own kind of headache
Really sad to see it go and really annoyed to see them pushing AI
I was actually thinking about to go through the profile directory and follow interesting people on there. I guess I should wait.
Might be actually better to follow them now. In case these profiles move to another instance, you will still follow them after the move. But if you don't follow them it might be harder to find out if and where they moved to, to find them again.
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