I didn’t use it but the lack of an explanation is a frustrating response. Give feedback to the feedback??
Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
Submitted 2 days ago by 101@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249
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tabular@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sigh, so is Mozilla just like Google now? Can’t trust any services to stick around?
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a mastodon server. I don’t want them spending money on that anyways. They should be focusing on the browser, not social media infrastructure.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Exactly. They should be dropping anything that isn’t revenue positive or isn’t furthering the goals of browser. Rust is a great project because it’s being used directly in the browser. Mastodon isn’t, because it has no relationship to their browser efforts. I’m on the fence about the VPN, but if it’s revenue positive, it should probably stick around, and it sort of benefits the browser as well.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 days ago
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The majority of those are nothing burgers. They shut down their dedicated password app when they integrated it’s features into the browser, they shut down their encrypted file sharing tool when they realized it was being used for very nefarious uses, they shut down Positron and it’s affiliated projects because nobody started using it over Electron… and a lot of the rest are extremely niche (like viewing websites in 3d, cool but not all that useful).
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 days ago
It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…
1984@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Good. Stil fucking around, focus on the browser. If they can make it provide value that Google can’t, they are succeeding. Google cant compete in privacy.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 2 days ago
They are dropping it to focus on the important shit. Forcing bullshit genai stuff into their browser and working on adtech.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Forcing bullshit genai stuff into their browser
It’s an opt-in feature that just opens whatever AI service you picked, their website in a sidebar. You can even use your own local AI if you want to. Or not use it at all. But the AI isn’t actually in your browser any more than it is in your browser when you open their website in a tab.
If the translation thing counts as AI then that’s actually a really cool and more private use of it compared to querying a server. It can do the translation completely locally. Works pretty well too in my experience, though it does think for a moment when you tell it to translate.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Got to love ignorant hot tapes based on article headings.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Until they change CEOs again. I wonder what it’d be like to not have corporate parasites everywhere
superkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
They’re still on Xitter, though.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, maintaining an instance is a larger job than having a twitter account. I don’t think they’re all that comparable.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Do they at least have an account on someone else’s instance then? If they do, it’s fine for them to not have to spend resources on maintaining their own.
VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Rats…that company’s gonna miss out on all the fun.
testtchncs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what else does Mozilla have? matrix ? @ChatGPT@lemmings.world
meliante@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You either die the hero
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh no! Anyway…
Vipsu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy support would be much more fitting for Mozilla. They could add plugin or lemmy integration to their browser that could show discussions from subscribed communities matching the current url.
Effectively acting as a “comment section” but for any page. One would only need lemmy account to comment on youtube videos, news articles, blogs etc.
mke@programming.dev 1 day ago
I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:
Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how “Lemmy integration in the browser” could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I’m missing something.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, something like 50k users is a drop in the bucket. It’s a nice size for a community, but not big enough to warrant a browser feature.
Vipsu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well since they were/are hosting Mastodon instance they do seem to have some interest in the fediverse. They do also have official plugins.
Personally I feel something like this could be the next step for social link aggregation and discussion platforms. Being able to share and discuss on about videos and articles without having to register to dozens or more pages while also having some control over the people you interract with through instances, subscribed communities etc.
Source media would also be unable to control what can or cannot be discussed. Many youtube videos and news articles for example may block all comments. It would be up to community on how to moderate discussion.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 day ago
that seems like the way to go for this
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wow that might actually be amazing. A comment section for every page?
SteveTech@programming.dev 1 day ago
I swear Lemmy comments for YouTube had a feature that let you open it for any page, but it seems the GitHub and Firefox page been deleted.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Think of all the tracking data!
Clbull@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gab tried to pull the same thing with their Dissenter plugin. It was such a bad idea that Mozilla and Google banded together to remove the extensions from their stores for ToS violations.
Now imagine what a nightmare it would be to moderate the ability to comment on anything online with actual standards and decency.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why was it a bad idea? Seems like a wonderful idea. Minus Gab.
Some kind of web of trust and inheriting ignored users based on it and weights - and it will work.