Mozilla (@[email protected])
mozilla.social
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).
  • sagEnglish
    11•8 months ago

    Are they leaving Fediverse?

  • katy ✨English
    9•8 months 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 :(

    • Draconic NEOEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      It is sad, really thought they were trying to do something good but I guess they were just trying to chase trends, they’re pursuing the AI trend now heavily, and a lot of Firefox users are pissed about it, many think they are shutting down because they don’t get the positive feedback and enthusiasm about AI that they were hoping to on Mastodon, as they do on other platforms like twitter and threads.

  • @[email protected]English
    36•8 months ago

    I guess along with all the google money, they also got Google’s pathological need to cancel everything, too.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•8 months ago

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

    This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

  • @[email protected]English
    22•8 months 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

    • @[email protected]English
      3•8 months 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.

    • Draconic NEOEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      I think it’s to be expected with their current decisions of chasing the AI trend and buying an advertising company, but mostly from chasing the AI trend. After all as much as the few AI-bros here would like to claim most of Firefox users are not happy about the idea of AI chatbot integration into Firefox, and especially aren’t happy about AI search history integration into Firefox.

      Many people think that Mozilla is trying to cut off communication with their customers or move to more corporate social media like threads or Twitter since their AI efforts are not being well received in this community. And will I definitely can say it’s more complicated than that, that’s not a wrong idea either, since their AI efforts are absolutely not well received by this community.

    • cabbage
      12•8 months ago

      The comments on the post also aren’t from Mozilla.social. It’s not like they would have been happy to see Mozilla as a successful actor on the Fediverse either.

  • atro_city
    11•8 months ago

    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).

  • @[email protected]English
    7•8 months 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.

    • OptionalEnglish
      15•8 months ago

      Managing unpaid volunteers is its own kind of headache

  • @[email protected]English
    22•8 months ago

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

  • t�mEnglish
    5•8 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      12•8 months 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.