I don't get why after all the bad things leadership has done to Mozilla people still believe in some magic fairy dust turning them back into defenders of basic freedoms.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:wrote last edited by [email protected]
I don't get why, after all the bad things leadership has done to Mozilla, people still believe in some magic fairy dust turning them back into defenders of basic freedoms. IMHO the Google money has corrupted them and that was not a surprise to me. It is time to take the web back without counting on them. Yes, that's a brutal and harsh take and #UnpopularOpinion, but I am Dutch and I don't like to waste time finding excuses for them anymore. Thanks for all the fish, time for a new browser! IMHO.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by [email protected]
(What I really think: the web itself is broken and it actually is time to replace http(s) with something better. And no, I don't know what that will be, but I know that the Web we all want is not the Web we all have.)
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
Now I know that a lot of good people work at or for Mozilla. I know these people also want The Good Things. And I feel bad for them. I really hoped that pressure from the outside would make things better. But I simply don't see enough good things happening (and there are a lot of good things) that can counter The Bad Things anymore. This is my very personal opinion.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by [email protected]
And no, I don't know what other browser (engine) could/should take its place. But I see a revived interest in building new engines. And I mean new. From the ground up. Not forks. But I fear that new engines will have a hard time to be fully compliant with the gazillions of standards and drafts that force them to make unpopular decisions wrt privacy and basic freedoms.
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Mathias Hasselmannreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer What exactly happened to trigger this rant?
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Mathias Hasselmann last edited by [email protected]
@taschenorakel Mozilla declaring to shut down their mastodon instance. https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/ and https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/
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redwingreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer What's wrong with using forks?
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to redwing last edited by
@redwing Where did I say it is?
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Mathias Hasselmannreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer Hmm... Uncool... And seems like a terrible signal — until you visit mozilla.social and see that this instance has only 270 users. Only 270 users. With only 270 users I kind of unterstand this decision.
Actually I am much more fed up now with these journalists that greatly built up and exaggerate this non-story.
Just a storm in een theekopje, IMHO.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Mathias Hasselmann last edited by [email protected]
@taschenorakel My instance has two users. In a federated network instance size should ideally be irrelevant. And a 270 user instance shouldn’t be a big thing to keep running. Giving it up sends a signal. That Mozilla thinks the fediverse is irrelevant.