Thinking about it, this kind of thing makes me angry. It's the kind of thing you get when you install a CEO in a tech company who fundamentally does not understand tech.

So they chase AI in the browser, which has never made much sense and got universally panned when Arc did it recently.

And claims that demand has moved away from VR the week after Apple ships VisionPro.

And downsize their efforts to work on social, which could have an amazing browser dimension, but they won't see of course.

@J12t wouldn't be surprised if the intelligence communities are trying to make Mozilla disfunctional because it interferes with their profit margins and as an Institution increases the chance of a Black Swan Event in tech.

@J12t they are getting as bad as Google when it comes to killing products!

@J12t tbf mozilla.social is tiny, at ~1300 total users, with an active user count half of the instance I help admin. Vivaldi's instance is more than an order of magnitude larger.

So their Mastodon instance would be subsidized indefinitely if any work got done on it at all, and there are better stewards for that size of user base.

I don't like the AI focus to be clear, but in the scheme of things to cut, this one unfortunately makes sense.