We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024.
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@mozilla I remember when Mozilla was led by people who understood the assignment
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@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"
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@mozilla this is such a bummer. I thought Mozilla's experiments with the social web were truly some of the most exciting (and sustainable) things Mozilla has worked on in years. Really sad that it's getting shut down so early.
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@mozilla with this being an experiment and all, will you write sort of what you learned? What questions you wanted to answer with the experiment and what those answers were?
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Draconic NEOreplied to rail :neofox_flag_nb: last edited by
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Mozilla is such a terrible company, really sucks that they are the only alternative to chromium based browsers, and they still suck as a company.This is why we need a community maintained browser, something that is made by the community and for the community. Where those maintaining it aren't insulated from the community's wishes. Mozilla is insulated from them and that's a big problem for the future of Firefox, and anything else they make.
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Paul Wilde :dontpanic2: :smeghead:replied to Mozilla last edited by
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@Blisterexe @mozilla I was assuming they'd continue to have a presence on the fediverse, but the part I was referring to is on running their instance and encouraging users to sign up there https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
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Stefan Baur 6 * 💉replied to Draconic NEO last edited by
@Draconic_NEO @rail_ @mozilla You mean like #palemoonbrowser ?
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@mozilla Thanks for the hard work. I wonder if you've considered releasing the login-with-Mozilla-account code for mozilla.social as Open Source software for others to use.
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Seth 🎙️:jawn_sg:replied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
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@mozilla very sorry to hear this. Anyone from there that is looking for a server is welcome at IndieWeb.social.
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@hisham_hm @mozilla feels a little like this:
I’m not even sure why they can’t maintain an account which simply posts all the stuff they normally would on other platforms. Surely they are using a service that manages cross-platform posting.
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@mozilla I feel like the Mozilla I knew 10 years ago would not have made this decision.
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And my voice to the choir: a debrief on the experiment and what you've learned would be very valuable.
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I really want to like Pale Moon. I love complete themes. But the developers are bigots.
Here's Moonchild in 2017 explaining that he believes men are inherently better at programming than women:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16372&p=119333#p119317
Here's Moonchild in 2020 announcing that he will no longer accept donations through Patreon, because he claims they got "political" by putting a Black Lives Matter banner at the top of their home page. He instead endorses the "politically neutral" Paypal, owned by a billionare who has never done anything political.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=192120#p192120
Here's Moonchild in 2022 complaining about "SJW"
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=27765&p=223145&hilit=SJW#p223145
Here's Moonchild's number two person Athenian200 in 2024 complaining about how terrible the gays on "Mastodon" are:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=30942&p=249637#p249633
(And Moonchild agrees with him in the following post).
Here's Moonchild in 2024 making an April Fool's Day "joke" promising "Fully-inclusive accessibility features for every gender identity."
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31021
Here's Moonbat, one of the current developers, in 2024 talking about how Elon Musk taking over Twitter improved things by driving away "lefty control freaks" (though it's worth noting Moonchild disagreed with Moonbat in the following post).
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252431
Here's Moonchild in the same thread complaining that people on fediverse care about accessibility along with "warriors for the cause" BS.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252617
Here's Moonchild in 2024 talking about how "SJWs" are "triggered" by SerenityOS:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=31322#p254004
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@mozilla The moment another FOSS browser (engine) reaches feature parity with Firefox and Chrome you guys are fucking screwed.
The main reason you still exist despite a majority of people in the FOSS community heavily disliking you is a lack of proper alternatives. Once it exists… k thx bye.