Mozilla.Social is Shutting Down
Mozilla.Social is Shutting Down
Mozilla has announced that they are officially closing down their Fediverse social instance, to focus on their other efforts.
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.
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?
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.
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.
To the surprise of no one - Mozilla should have just made accounts on some server and promised support for said server
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.I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instances.
It solves the following issues
- Social media independence
- Validate account authenticity through the instance domain name
- Ability for followers migration between instances (leave, join, change news organization)
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.
Someone got pissy the ai stuff got backlash
this is not how to achieve independence.