Y'all fickle beasts. Not a few months ago Firefox was a cult
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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Like all products, Firefox still maintains a small core of uncritical, devoted fans. To them, Mozilla can do no wrong.
The problem is, up until a few months ago, Mozilla advocated for privacy and other public facing values that lined up with their manifesto. Now, they are breaking away from that, and the true believers are shifting too: becoming hostile to privacy.
The people who liked Firefox because of its privacy stance, or because they were looking for an alternative to Big Tech, on the other hand, aren't 100% likely to become a true believer, and those people are the critics. Often, those critics have been around for years going on decades.
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~~Google~~ Mozilla shutting down yet another project:
Unfortunate, but not unexpected.
I don't get why, I can't see this be difficult or costly to run, but then again I have no clue, never ran a Mastodon instance.
I would assume that it's not worth the small reach compared to running X / Bluesky / Threads accounts but then again, like I said, the cost must be super small. 🤷
Running the server probably costs about $100 per year, plus one person's $180,000 salary
I'm not sure why they created one to begin with
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The only thing you need to know about how Lemmings think about politics is that they bash Mozilla more than Google.
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