Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
270 active users isn’t much for a masto instance.
Given that Mozilla is a small company, and small company’s really can’t afford to lose focus for the major roadmap initiatives, I’m going to bet that this was someone’s hackathon project.
I don’t think Mozilla running a Mastodon server is losing focus. The ethos of Mozilla and the Fediverse have a lot of overlap, and Mozilla should desire to have a foot in it.
An official Mastodon server is also a useful platform for marketing and outreach. In contrast an organisation claiming to be all about privacy and open source retreating from a social media platform that embodies those is not a good look.
The ethos of Mozilla
That’s the thing that changed.
I think official instances should be fairly small, no? They shouldn’t allow users from outside Mozilla onto their instance. The point is that they federate and can interact with a wider audience from an official source.
Yeah, I believe the official instance of EU and ACM are both quite small. It is a great way to verify people’s identity just from their ID.
But muh free service!
I’m sad it’s gone but I’m not gonna pretend like it’s the end of the world.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Mozilla is so small it only pays its CEO 10 million a year.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
How do they even afford to eat???
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Probably the $500 million or so that Google pays them every year
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They probably shop at Aldi.