Gregory's Server@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.
@ian The way they said it, it sounded like they put quite some resources into mozilla.social. Perhaps those resources could have accomplished more if plenty of instances without such resources have much higher user bases? Conversely, lots of instances have much larger user bases but no funding. Given that, it seems rather cheap to run such an instance, so it can't be a big drain on their resources that it will have an actual impact on their financials.