I would say “I cannot believe this”, but actually I do.

I have no words. It’s so sad and infuriating.

Suggestion: make #Librewolf redundant by making a free noncommercial open source browser.

That’s all we want; that’s why I donate.

WE DON’T NEED YOU TO BE A VPN, A CHATBOT, OR AN “ETHICAL” ADVERTISER

JUST DELIVER THE BROWSER YOU WERE CREATED TO DELIVER

@kde @be4foss

Is the KDE browser #Falkon still in active development?

What result from the experiment is behind the decision? Cost / maintenance hours / community fit etc.

I can't imagine there being another social network with a higher ratio of Firefox users than here.

/Firefox user

outside the engineering teams, a Firefox account never actually came to Mastodon. On Threads, Firefox doesn't even use the Fediverse integration.

I always found that a little weird.

But, I guess we now know - outside engineering, the Fediverse is not something Mozilla + Firefox ever really believed in.

Are you gonna post a more elaborate statement about why you're closing mozilla.social and/or how well the experience went? Just vaguely saying it's shutting down isn't very helpful.

[*insert rant about mozilla here*]

I ask from you a more detailed reason.
You can have arguments.
But just that single post won't cut it.

If it's money related, may I see true figures ? Because from your last public business numbers, you were funding things that totally alienate both your users and contributors / devs.

If it's to prepare a new federated kind of software / plaforms, cudos to you, if you feel limited on mastodon, but really we need more answers from an org as big as you. You can't be fad chasing. That's breaking people's hope and donations into you.

does anyone have any recommendations

i will stop using firefox and thunderbird ASAP

because mozilla has decided to piss off their decades long users

idiots

RIP bozo.

I'd like to see the Mozzarilla Sticks join other instances, but not if they're backing the corporate side of Mozilla; the AI crap, Pocket, etc.

as a single individual who is financing alone for the majority of expenses of my Mastodon gaming instance, I will only say that I have no plans to close it and I will continue setting aside a part of my free time to serve the gaming community which has placed their trust into me as their sysadmin and their player two.

Thank you, Mozilla, for participating in Fediverse. We shall meet again.

I'm so glad I've never received an invite to Mozilla's instance and instead chose @Vivaldi, when I gave up running my own Mastodon server.

Since I have to use at work some apps that work better with Chrome based browsers, it was also near the moment I switched my main browser from Firefox to Vivaldi.

It surprises me how a small company can maintain a Mastodon server, while Mozilla Foundation cannot.

#Mastodon #Mozilla #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #fediverse

Deeply disappointed in what Mozilla has become lately. Closing Mozilla Social was to be expected at some point, I guess it shows how much you care about the Fediverse when your own instance lasted just a year and a half.

At least I'm hoping you'll publish what you've learned (if anything) out of this 'experiment' soon enough.

Judging by this comment section I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving this toxic shotshow.

Thank god there are nicer corners of the Fediverse out there. But if the crowd in this comment section is the kind of people who are drawn towards commenting on on Mozilla operated platforms, there's little doubt Mozilla is better off distancing themselves as much as possible.

Christ.

You insult our intelligence by lying to us, it was not a hard decision, you wanted to end this because you wanted more money to develop AI features that almost all of your real userbase hates.

All because AI is the next big trend, this isn't any different from what Brave did with Crypto, and we all know how that turned out. Chasing trends will just alienate your userbase, and destroy the trust and reputation you've earned. Don't think for one moment that trust is indestructible, once you've blown it you'll be hard pressed to earn it back.

Sorry to hear.

Best of luck being an ad company captivated by unreliable "AI".

Maybe go back to focusing on the core product, that is the browser. It has become such a cranky, slow, bloated joke that #Firefox is mostly unusable now. And that's probably not because of the codebase, since Floorp and Librewolf perform much better, and the new Zen browser is about as good as any Chromium-based browsers.

I suspect Mozilla is a front for Google, for the purpose of deflecting accusations of monopoly yet make Firefox so shitty to entice people to download Chrome.

oh shit! That's a bummer.

If anyone in the New York metropolitan area is looking for a new home, masto.nyc is open!

#mozilla

Believing in everything and nothing at the same time. As a former Mozillian, I feel that you have totally lost the plot and only represent despair. Despair that the org doesn't believe in its mission.

But I know you never listened to people anyway, so what's the point?