The hell is with all these comments?
Mozilla is far from perfect but god damn the degree of hatred and mirth some people have is entirely disproportionate to anything they’ve actually done, and completely irrespective of the good they actually do.
It’s got the same energy as leftist purity testing, where there is no “net good”, only perfection and villains to be spat on.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Mozilla is so small it only pays its CEO 10 million a year.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
How do they even afford to eat???
thehatfox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the thing that changed.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
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.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
Galexio@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But muh free service!
I’m sad it’s gone but I’m not gonna pretend like it’s the end of the world.