Chris Messina
RIP mozilla.social? "Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a (1/2) 5 comments
Wu Evar 🇺🇦
Wow 3 months. Poor chaps. This struggling and this inconsistency makes it hard to cheer for any new Mozilla initiative or product - you can bet it’s dead in a few months (and increasing the risk for just another self-fulfilling prophecy even more) 
Olivier Simard-Casanova
@chrismessina I was toying with the idea to move to this instance. After this announcement, not anymore… 
Andrea Trasatti
@chrismessina How does Mozilla get back out of the hole,and innovate in the browser business? We are at risk of either 2 browser engines/experiences or even one if at some point Apple decides Chromium is good enough |
Gregory's Server
more modest approach would have enabled us to participate in the space with considerably greater agility. The actions we’re taking today will make this strategic correction, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more rapidly bring smaller experiments to people that choose to live on the mozilla.social instance."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/?guccounter=1 (2/2)