Mozilla.Social is Shutting Down

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• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Different CEOs will have different visions. The old CEO believed more in the value of social and the new one is more pragmatic and wants to focus on deliverable things with tangible returns like Firefox. It’s sad though as I think killing Mozilla.social is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    how much of the budget can a mastodon instance even take? like yeah sure don’t invest more into it but surely they could just leave it as a place for official fediverse accounts for their various projects?

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    • OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Infrastructure for a 300 MAU Mastodon instance isn’t very much, but if they’re paying employees to run it then that will drive expenses up quite a bit compared to how it is with volunteer-run instances.

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    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Less than €100 a month

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  • anachronist@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Both CEOs are horrible but the new one is a former McKinsey consultant with a background in finance and the silicon-valley C-suite. According to statements she put out her strategy is: layoffs and AI.

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• OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s a shame to see. Fediverse denizens are like the primary demographic that would consider using Firefox in the first place, so them hosting an instance was pretty cool.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To the surprise of no one - Mozilla should have just made accounts on some server and promised support for said server

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hard disagree.
    Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instance.

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    • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This. One of the points of this whole endeavour is self-hosting, in the name of resisting centralization.

      Imagine if Mozilla had hostes its website on Geocities.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Isn’t that exactly why you pick up your account and move servers?

      Again, they were also running a server we could join - I don’t know why they thought they had the resources to handle that.

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• sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Someone got pissy the ai stuff got backlash

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this is not how to achieve independence.

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