Y'all fickle beasts. Not a few months ago Firefox was a cult
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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~~Google~~ Mozilla shutting down yet another project:
I don't get why, I can't see this be difficult or costly to run, but then again I have no clue, never ran a Mastodon instance.
I would assume that it's not worth the small reach compared to running X / Bluesky / Threads accounts but then again, like I said, the cost must be super small. 🤷
If Mozilla doesn't discontinue a Mastodon server with under 300 people, how will it continue funding the $65 million AI and venture capital investments they've been making?! 😬
Running the server probably costs about $100 per year, plus one person's $180,000 salary
I'm not sure why they created one to begin with
Are they still running a matrix instance?
I wonder when they will stop that, too.
So they aren't exiting the fediverse. The whole premise of the article is wrong.
I think "the Fediverse" is generally understood to refer to ActivityPub-based projects, or even more narrowly, "things that can be seen from Mastodon". At least I understood it as such, even if that's not technically correct.
Nah. Its federated services. Matrix is part I'd the fediverse. Email is too.
Wow! I didn't know that Google and Microsoft are huge fediverse supporters! Email lovers ftw!!!!!
As of August 2024, diaspora* is the only actively developed project classified under the tradition fediverse term that doesn't support ActivityPub.
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Unfortunate, but not unexpected.
How defeatist of you, Mozilla. Whatever happened to your pride? Oh, it went a long time ago when you make a big deal about going 3.0 and how you claimed to have improved Firefox's performance. Been a long time, but Firefox remains ever more the same as it did way back then, just cluttered with more features that weighs it's performance.
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