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I am shocked. Shocked! /s

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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Hmm why cant they move to a pre hosted mastodon server

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 18 hours ago

This is too much information being processed at a time to me! 😵‍💫

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

Does it matter that they don't run an instance?

As long as they have accounts and keep them up to date, that is the main thing.

How many open source projects actually run and moderate instances?

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.

- Mozilla Manifesto, Principle 6, emphasis mine

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This sucks (Was it really costing much money to run?) but as long as Firefox continues to work with full-flavor ublock I'm happy.

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

did an AI become their CEO by now? dumb moz foundation.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 29 points 1 day ago

Weird that they called it a “Beta”, like running a chat server you didn’t code is somehow an experiment. Just say you couldn’t be arsed running it anymore.

[-] zante@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 day ago

I guess hating Mozilla is very much in fashion. The tech chatterati have made it so.

They’ll move on, as they always do. I just hope Firefox is still here.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Critiquing Mozilla when they make mistakes is not the same as hating them. It is healthy to keep these organizations accountable

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The issue is all signs point to them pivoting to AI and ad driven nonsense - they'll move on, but if the product goes to shit so will I. The rest is noise.

[-] mina@berlin.social 125 points 1 day ago

@dantheclamman

I am definitely starting to hate #Mozilla.

As a remark: I have always been fine with their deal with Pocket and having Google as their default search engine. In the end, there are bills to be paid.

Until I learned that e.g. Mozilla Corporation's CEO is on a multi-million dollar salary, and they're hiring ai and ad people.

Not OK for an entity where many highly skilled people code for free.

It's not what users want the cash to be spent on.

Leaving the Fedi is the final drop

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago

I think you might be overestimating how much code is contributed by unpaid volunteers...

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[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 day ago

Just make a good browser.. Thats all I care about from mozilla.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Same,i wish they can make their browser fast and actually private since gecko is slower then chromium (and maybe webkit?) its even worse on windows

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Can we all just use a "bad browser" that isn't "as good" as these exploitative mainstream browsers by specifically giving up on websites that require a browser that exploits us? We shouldn't need to be exploited.

[-] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

That's what I do!

Website don't work? I immediately leave and don't think about it ever again

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah! Websites be too needy.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 78 points 1 day ago

Mozilla 2012: We're winning the browser war and saving the web. You're welcome.

Mozilla 2017: Competing with Chrome is hard. What if we break all existing extensions and never let people replace them all?

Mozilla 2021: Through inclusiveness and the power of positive thinking we will facilitate leadership towards in-depth studies of what we can do to improve social media.

Mozilla 2024: Running a small mastodon instance is just too hard, we give up.

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