welcome to Vivaldi browser.

vivaldi.com/

Is there a direct reason why?

Is it too costly to run the server? Is - as I suspect - the community found more on Bluesky in particular, not here?

yo: a why would be nice?

Oh, shit… going away from public spaces…
Job posting for ads… and ai…

So you’re looking to harvest user data to sell to ai/ads to stay afloat?

Have you lived long enough to see yourself turn into the villain? Fuck, Mozilla, can you please do better?

How did that look-aid taste? Cause, you know, it seems like it contains poison… it says AI on the bottle: I don’t know what you don’t get?!?!

This decision sucks. You make @Vivaldi the only browser hosting a Mastodon server for its users, and thereby you give up a major feature-wise advantage of your ecosystem.

Do less VPN and AI. Focus on your original, true mission: Open platforms and protocols are what the Internet currently needs most urgently.

The moment another FOSS browser (engine) reaches feature parity with Firefox and Chrome you guys are fucking screwed.

The main reason you still exist despite a majority of people in the FOSS community heavily disliking you is a lack of proper alternatives. Once it exists… k thx bye.

I pay for my me.dm account why not charge to maintain the service?

Maybe run a kickstarter if you are not sure if there is sufficient support.

When you expect nothing, really *nothing* from a company that has been getting worse and worse for years - and you are still disappointed.

<Insert Trevor Noah voice here> Byeeeee!

@caregiverstudent @be4foss

Yes. Latest stable version came out on August 22, in the KDE Gear 22.08 release:

kde.org/announcements/gear/24.…

@FirefoxDevTools @FirefoxPerf sad to see you go. You are my source for Firefox webdev infos and I finally felt informed. I could even get some of the info to colleagues at work.

@mozilla it would be nice to state not just that it was a "hard decision", but rather *why* you’re shutting down mozilla.social

For years Mozilla manages to surprise me with decisions directly in the opposite direction if what I call reasonable.

The only sad thing is Firefox, which is still the only viable option for a working browser.
If it wouldn't be for Firefox, I wouldn't miss Mozilla if it would cease to exist tomorrow.

How can a once beloved foundation go down the drain so badly?

what's the reasoning for this? do you simply not have enough money to maintain it? well then, i guess you should make your products have value, and maybe people will be willing to invest.

your wording it as an "experiment" might imply you have something of your own planned afterward...

I can understand Mozilla not wanting to moderate a Mastodon instance and focusing their efforts elsewhere.

I cannot understand the way this is communicated though. Yet another communication failure.

And leaving the #Fediverse altogether in favor of X/Twitter and the likes, would be just plain wrong.

❓ Can we expect Mozilla to communicate through another Mastodon instance?

For those criticizing Mozilla's #AI experiments: if they wouldn't integrate at least some AI features in their browser (e.g. the AI sidebar in Firefox Labs and the summarize/simplify function), Firefox would quickly become irrelevant against browsers that do offer tighter integration with AI (Edge, Chrome).

You don't need to like AI. But don't pretend nobody's interested in AI features.

You misspelled "asinine."

If you're unhappy with mastodon.social, that's on you. They're running beta code. You could have run your own server, AS I DO. You could have modified the code there to suit AS I DO. It costs next to nothing to host a server. You don't need a rack.

Even ratemybody dot com ran on a Windows server front-end and a Windows server db back-end on a SHARED gigabit line. It isn't the bandwidth. I have more for my server IN MY LIVING ROOM.

Have you no programmers or sysadmins left?

Who shuts down nearly free advertising?

Leave if you want to. Stay if you want to. But please don't patronize us with this "hard decision" bs. It's insulting.

And consider hiring people not afraid to disagree with your divas. Contrarians save many companies from the stupidity of their masters.

Bye, free advertising. Hello, unneeded black eye.

The people using this instance were mostly closely connected to #Mozilla. Moving is easy in the fediverse. But these accounts will lose their place of origin, their roots connected to your company.

Not a good decision. It could have been a long-term platform for your own people. Invaluable for this little amount of money.

But you have enough time and money to shove #AI down our throat!

You are really going downhill and that all of the expense of your volunteers and users. If @Vivaldi would have been open source, I already switched. I probably have to go with a reliable fork.

Wow. This sucks. Do you guys even believe in open standards?

At least you announce it 3 months in advance and give instructions on how to migrate.

But why?! If you can't afford the one server I'll buy one for you.

Masto had it's.

Nostr is where decentralized social is now at anyways.

On Nostr your account isn't bound to any instance.

You really don't even know what people actually want despite them screaming into your dumb faces.

In the words of 2Pac
"Die slow, motherfucker"

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