• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    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 :(

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    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).

  • mke@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    The replies are a prime example of the fediverse microblogging sphere’s greatest qualities.

    This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.

  • johnassel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I hope that means that they can and will put more power into Firefox development - to concentrate on their main thing.

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    2 days ago

    I never interacted with mozilla.social, but I wonder if they considered organising mozilla.social through a connected volunteer association, before deciding to shutdown.

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    2 days ago

    I was actually thinking about to go through the profile directory and follow interesting people on there. I guess I should wait.

    • narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Might be actually better to follow them now. In case these profiles move to another instance, you will still follow them after the move. But if you don’t follow them it might be harder to find out if and where they moved to, to find them again.

  • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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

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      2 days ago

      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.

      • mke@programming.dev
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        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.

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          13 hours ago

          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.

        • rglullis@communick.news
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          1 day ago

          Unless the lawsuit is a fabrication, you are literally dismissing a story just based on who is telling it.

          • mke@programming.dev
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            1 day ago

            No, I’m trying to reduce the influence of a problematic individual. The lawsuit has, and will have, more coverage.

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        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.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          The incoming CEO kills the preceding CEO’s cubs so the company will get back into estrus and they can have their own cubs.