If I'm being honest, I don't understand the level of vitriol over shutting down mozilla.social.
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If I'm being honest, I don't understand the level of vitriol over shutting down mozilla.social.
It's not like it ever amounted to anything. It was never open to the public. They didn't appear to be doing much to advance the protocols, or the tools, or inter-server communication. It only has about 300 active users, and they have plenty of time to migrate.
If you're going to be mad about some part of this story, shouldn't it have been all the middle bits where nothing happened?
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
Honestly, I kind of forgot it existed until yesterday.
That's the part that should bother you.
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Bishop Whitewindreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus $3/mo server cost too much for Mozilla
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Bishop Whitewind last edited by
@B_Whitewind
Don't be a child. It's not helping anything.Staffing admin, moderators, and the risk posed by user generated content is what cost too much.
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same with the german ministry's mastodon account. They had not been posted since fall 2023, without anyone really caring/complaining. they post a message in sept 2024 that they'll shut down the account altogether, and then people got really upset and now theyre back again: https://social.bund.de/@bmbf_bund/113119341624530634
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@jenniferplusplus I guess it's because Mozilla setting up a server at all was seen as "proof" that the Fediverse was the future. If it wasn't, why would a recognizable name like Mozilla bother with it?
So shutting it down is, by the same measure, "proof" that the Fediverse isn't the future anymore. Because projects can only be a world-spanning success or absolute failure. No in-between.
That's a terrible way at determining what the future is, but it's how a lot of people approach it.
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@jenniferplusplus it shutting down was a reminder of all of those other things they failed to do. And another paper cut, hot on the heels of the AI sidebar, opt-out ad stuff and the AccuWeather widget.