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.
Mozilla is so small it only pays its CEO 10 million a year.
How do they even afford to eat???
Mozilla is a small company
I’m surprised that people consider a ~2000-person company that revenues about a half billion a year to be “small”. Mozilla is a profit-driven corporation, far separated from the vision of the hobbyist coders who founded it decades ago. The only reason they’re shutting down their Mastodon server is because it’s not making them money, not because they lack the resources to support it.
But muh free service!
I’m sad it’s gone but I’m not gonna pretend like it’s the end of the world.
The fate of Mozilla is sad, I know one day they will announce a move to chromium. It might be after a buyout but they will switch chromium and than die
If they switch to Chromium they lose their half a billion per year from Google to be the token “look we’re not a monopoly here’s competition” browser.
Technically I think that’s still “put us first on the search bar” money. You’re giving the real under-the-table explanation.
Bring back Netscape!
I just want something rust based
Have you tried putting your cast iron in the dishwasher?
Don’t bother. Just leave it on the sink with some water.
I really hope servo takes off.
Even if they did so, isn’t Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don’t have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)
Sure, but is Google gonna pay them or you hoping they will do that work for free? A browser doesn’t seem like a hobby project to me.
Cowards. Mozilla has forgotten its roots at its own peril.
Not surprised, Mozilla the company has been shit for years and getting worse.
I called it months ago with the whole Russia fiasco and then reiterated with the whole ad company buy out fiasco. Downvoted both times.
Mozilla is on a path of enshittification and from what I see the “safeguards” that were put in place to prevent enshittification of FF are eroding
