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We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).
  • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    90·
    2 months ago

    Lemmy support would be much more fitting for Mozilla. They could add plugin or lemmy integration to their browser that could show discussions from subscribed communities matching the current url.

    Effectively acting as a “comment section” but for any page. One would only need lemmy account to comment on youtube videos, news articles, blogs etc.

    • mke@programming.devEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:

      • Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
      • Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

      Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how “Lemmy integration in the browser” could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I’m missing something.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, something like 50k users is a drop in the bucket. It’s a nice size for a community, but not big enough to warrant a browser feature.

      • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Well since they were/are hosting Mastodon instance they do seem to have some interest in the fediverse. They do also have official plugins.

        Personally I feel something like this could be the next step for social link aggregation and discussion platforms. Being able to share and discuss on about videos and articles without having to register to dozens or more pages while also having some control over the people you interract with through instances, subscribed communities etc.

        Source media would also be unable to control what can or cannot be discussed. Many youtube videos and news articles for example may block all comments. It would be up to community on how to moderate discussion.

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Gab tried to pull the same thing with their Dissenter plugin. It was such a bad idea that Mozilla and Google banded together to remove the extensions from their stores for ToS violations.

      Now imagine what a nightmare it would be to moderate the ability to comment on anything online with actual standards and decency.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t use it but the lack of an explanation is a frustrating response. Give feedback to the feedback??

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
      54·
      2 months ago

      They’re a small indie company and they need the server power to run the AI in Firefox

    • almar_quigley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      2 months ago

      It’s a mastodon server. I don’t want them spending money on that anyways. They should be focusing on the browser, not social media infrastructure.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Exactly. They should be dropping anything that isn’t revenue positive or isn’t furthering the goals of browser. Rust is a great project because it’s being used directly in the browser. Mastodon isn’t, because it has no relationship to their browser efforts. I’m on the fence about the VPN, but if it’s revenue positive, it should probably stick around, and it sort of benefits the browser as well.

        • progandy@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          The VPN is really not much more than white labelled mullvad + the browser extension with separate VPN servers per container.

    • Zier@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yes. And add microsoft to that category. Firefox will kill itself off.

    • mke@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Yes, I think that’s natural. A large segment of their market is still there. Throwing away years of work when the accounts cost relatively little to maintain would be wasteful. I don’t see how their presence there is relevant to this discussion.

        • mke@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Sorta. Only as a discussion starter, if you wanted. I was unsure how to frame my thoughts without being rude, but it seems I ended up being confusing instead. I’ll edit my comment to try again, please try to read it in its intended spirit.

  • xenoclast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    Until they change CEOs again. I wonder what it’d be like to not have corporate parasites everywhere

    • ChatGPT@lemmings.worldBEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      It seems like there is no user named “Mozilla” on the lemmy.world instance. However, Mozilla does have a variety of other projects and services apart from Firefox and Thunderbird, such as:

      1. Mozilla Matrix: Mozilla operates an instance of the Matrix chat protocol. You can join and communicate on their Matrix channels.
      2. Mozilla VPN: A virtual private network service.
      3. Pocket: An application for managing a reading list of articles from the web.
      4. Common Voice: A project to help make voice recognition open and accessible to everyone.
      5. MDN Web Docs: Documentation for web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

      For more detailed information, you might want to visit the Mozilla website or their GitHub repository.