I bet its two users are both very sad
Lol…people sayin mozilla goin downhill…they have been putting up a fake premise to the public for 10 years.
i’m legitimately sad about this since i loved having a nice wholesome social media network that actually takes moderation seriously to keep up trolls and harassers :(
It is sad, really thought they were trying to do something good but I guess they were just trying to chase trends, they’re pursuing the AI trend now heavily, and a lot of Firefox users are pissed about it, many think they are shutting down because they don’t get the positive feedback and enthusiasm about AI that they were hoping to on Mastodon, as they do on other platforms like twitter and threads.
Man, Mozilla used to be nice but they have just turned so shit. I hope the core firefox people quit and make a new browser so that I can donate directly to the new browser instead of some middle man (or woman right now) who siphons off the money (aka Mozilla).
Fediverse is so 2022. It’s all about AI now.
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Are they leaving Fediverse?
I did not see a reason given. Anyone know why?
Probably because nobody was using it.
307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.
Political. Steve Teixeira was the one championing the focus on social. Apparently the faction that wanted him out won, and now they are getting rid of his babies, too.
I would suggest not trusting anything Lunduke says, the man went off the deep end and became a harmful conspiracy theorist.
For example, he believes there is a trans advocacy group going around and destroying open source projects from within. That’s right, only the Lunduke Journal has the truth, and the truth is that trans kids are killing open source.
There you go, straight from the source: https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/113162099798398758 mm
He used to be on a podcast I listen to (Bad Voltage) and there was an episode (pre-pandemic) where he came out as anti-vaccinations. I didn’t listen to the show again until he left. I have zero time for people who think they know better than their children’s doctors.
Unless the lawsuit is a fabrication, you are literally dismissing a story just based on who is telling it.
No, I’m trying to reduce the influence of a problematic individual. The lawsuit has, and will have, more coverage.
Gutting defeated/ousted manager’s projects is an obligatory and unavoidable ritual in corporate environment. Competent or convenient employees are pulled into other teams, pesky/unconvenient ICs are fired since everything can be pinned on the loser. Projects are often dismantled - even profitable ones to remove any possible foothold for a comeback. Shit, now I want to write a corpo book but styled like high school biology textbook.
The incoming CEO kills the preceding CEO’s cubs so the company will get back into estrus and they can have their own cubs.
Lord of the Flies up in there, hot damn!
I guess along with all the google money, they also got Google’s pathological need to cancel everything, too.
I hope that means that they can and will put more power into Firefox development - to concentrate on their main thing.
El oh el
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 running a server and no longer interacting with a service can be two different things. From an organizational standpoint I could absolutely understand them not wanting or needing the expense of another service to maintain. Even for just their own use. As long as they still have accounts and post to the fediverse. I don’t see a big issue
They’ll probably still have an instance in the sense that mozilla folks with have @mozilla.social addresses. That’s the kind of thing their hosting staff can easily administer on the side, and moderation is already covered by HR.
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
