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We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).
  • xenoclast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Until they change CEOs again. I wonder what it’d be like to not have corporate parasites everywhere

  • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days 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.

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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.

    • mke@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:

      • Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
      • Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

      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.

      • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    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.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Good. Stop 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.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days 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.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t use it but the lack of an explanation is a frustrating response. Give feedback to the feedback??

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      They’re a small indie company and they need the server power to run the AI in Firefox

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I don’t think Firefox has any AI that they need to run for you. The language thing (if that counts) is local thing.

        • mke@programming.devEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Sorta. Only as a discussion starter, if you wanted. I was unsure how to frame my thoughts without being rude, but it seems I ended up being confusing instead. I’ll edit my comment to try again, please try to read it in its intended spirit.

      • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days 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).

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            1 day ago

            “Its” has been deprecated.

            “It’s” follows the rule for contractions with words ending in “s” (is, has) as well as the apostrophe-s rule for possessive forms. As you have demonstrated, the distinction is obvious in context; there is no significant opportunity for confusion.

            Keeping the old form does nothing for society other than to inflate the egos of authoritarian English teachers, provide an opportunity for pedantry, confuse spell checkers, and introduce an unneeded exception to the possessive form. Nothing of value is lost by eliminating the old word.

            So, “It’s” is a homonym: two words spelled and pronounced the same, but carrying different meanings.

    • almar_quigley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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.