@mozilla

How did the experiment go?

@mozilla@mozilla.social damn glad I didn't get that position working on Elk

@mozilla why,i am tired of mozilla shutting everything down without properly developing and marketing products, mozilla.social had potential and is going to Mozilla Graveyard to join many products with potential not unlike mozilla.social,i give up on mozilla

@mozilla You’re a circus of clowns.

@mozilla need more resources for doing the exact opposite of what users want I guess

@mozilla sad

@mozilla You guys are doing a great job of limiting your market share! 👍

@mozilla people want stuff like this, NOT AI

@mozilla I just hope the money you save by shutting down mozilla.social can be used to go towards your AI chatbot bullshit that none of your users actually fucking want.

@mozilla disappointment over disappointment

@mozilla that’s unfortunate to hear. Where will the Mozilla account’s handle be moved to?

@mozilla Are your various (product) accounts staying on Mastodon?

@mozilla

"we've made the hard decision to avoid public forums where people can call us on our bullshit"

@mozilla can y'all make this a custom emoji for these last 4 months?

@mozilla just another greedy corporation. So dissapointing.

@mozilla I remember when Mozilla was led by people who understood the assignment

@mozilla I hope you will migrate your accounts to mastodon.social

@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"

@mozilla I ended my experiment with Mozilla last year. However, it was an easy decision for me.

@mozilla

@kde @be4foss

Is the KDE browser #Falkon still in active development?

@mozilla Can you be honest with us about what is going on with your company? How can we help you get back on track? -Sincerely, a concerned, supportive user.

@mozilla We didn't provide the 'Yay, AI!' attitude that you were looking for I assume. Well, don't let the door hit you on the bum bum on your way out.

@mozilla come on guys, it's just a bog-standard mastodon instance. it costs you pennies to run and gives a clear official channel for mozilla communications in the fediverse. surely you can stand to spend a few dollars of the hundreds of millions you get from google for search to keep it open?

@mozilla millions of dollars vs small admin, why is it so hard. Why didn’t you give it to someone else instead.

@mozilla In my list-of-companies-I'd-like-to-be-able-to-repect this is another nail in the coffin of mozilla.
It's amazingly hard to find a browser that's both functional and respectful. That's capitalism I suppose 😞

@mozilla Too many user responses to decisions that couldn’t be purged from data sets so that execs get what they asked for?

@mozilla You don't have to imitate Google either in their habit of shutting down every service they launch.

@mozilla What result from the experiment is behind the decision? Cost / maintenance hours / community fit etc.

I can't imagine there being another social network with a higher ratio of Firefox users than here.

/Firefox user

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@mozilla yeah, we get it, Mozilla is AI and asocial…

@mozilla

I have a feeling that by the end of the year, Mozilla will be completely enshittificated.

Glad I finally switched to LibreWolf after Firefox got ChatGPT integration and ad-measurement spyware pre-enabled.

Fuck you, Mozilla. You are becoming the very thing you were supposed to be fighting - another greedy corporation.

@mozilla when you hire a bunch of ex-google people, ex-Chrome devs, and are sniffing the farts of ai while your userbase diminishes due to multiple incomprehensible changes you should reflect on that instead of closing down this experiment.

@mozilla Mozilla graveyard is starting to get full and you're jump into ads and AI is *not* what we want. We want an open source, non-data collecting and independent web browser and mail client via Firefox and Thunderbird, in order to avoid the Chromium monoculture.

@mozilla booooooooooo

booooooooooo

stop paying your CEO so much

stop the AI bullshit

@mozilla Mozilla is so damn lazy. That must be why they want AI to do all their work for them. Company quickly cratering.

@mozilla can we at least get some sort of explaination or takeaway

@mozilla@mozilla.social that is a shame, will miss your 2 posts a month.

@mozilla Yet another totally stupid decision. Sniffing to much LLM farts recently?

@mozilla How much did it actually cost to run that instance? I can’t imagine it would have been an outrageous amount of money.

@mozilla this is such a bummer. I thought Mozilla's experiments with the social web were truly some of the most exciting (and sustainable) things Mozilla has worked on in years. Really sad that it's getting shut down so early.

@mozilla Suggestion: make #Librewolf redundant by making a free noncommercial open source browser.

That’s all we want; that’s why I donate.

WE DON’T NEED YOU TO BE A VPN, A CHATBOT, OR AN “ETHICAL” ADVERTISER

JUST DELIVER THE BROWSER YOU WERE CREATED TO DELIVER

@mozilla Maybe just focus on making a non shit brows...

@mozilla so glad I switched my browser to Vivaldi.

@mozilla

I see. You focus on the reputable channels. Like Twitter, LinkedIn or TikTOK.

What a move🥳

@mozilla inadequate engagement-monitoring tools on Mastodon, I'm guessing? Couldn't document your "reach"? Leaving this platform conveys lack of vision, imho

@mozilla lol

@mozilla@mozilla.social oh no why are you leaving :(

It could be great training data for your AI BULLSHIT.

@mozilla hey mozilla, not surprizing at all after you included ppa ad tracking into Firefox. Disgusting! :blobcatangery:

@mozilla@mozilla.social unfortunate

@mozilla Are you gonna post a more elaborate statement about why you're closing mozilla.social and/or how well the experience went? Just vaguely saying it's shutting down isn't very helpful.

[*insert rant about mozilla here*]

@mozilla sad

@mozilla shocking.

@mozilla

On the same day, I read first this https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/ and then this post. A myth has collapsed on me. Too bad, I'll have to look elsewhere.🤔

@mozilla with this being an experiment and all, will you write sort of what you learned? What questions you wanted to answer with the experiment and what those answers were?

@mozilla you make it harder and harder and harder with each passing announcement to support you guys…

@mozilla 😑👎

@mozilla I am not surprised that Mozilla is saying goodbye to the Fediverse. However, I am interested in the reasons and arguments that led to the closure of the own instance.

@mozilla And where will we get updates in a social media context from you from that point on?

@mozilla maybe people will migrate to librewolf.social then.

@mozilla Is there a blog post explaining why?

@mozilla

Never using Mozilla again after adopting ai and leaving mastodon

Final straw

@mozilla open web, huh?

@mozilla oh, you were still using it?
Oh well, bye then.

At least my friends at @Vivaldi are active and responsive on the fediverse

@mozilla I would say “I cannot believe this”, but actually I do.

I have no words. It’s so sad and infuriating.

@mozilla

does anyone have any recommendations

i will stop using firefox and thunderbird ASAP

because mozilla has decided to piss off their decades long users

idiots

@mozilla Makes sense, since you lot get roasted on here whenever you post the sort of cringe you get away with on other platforms.

@mozilla What was the reasons for shutting the server down? It does not take a lot of resources to run these services in cost or hours.

@mozilla

Off you fuck then, and take your AI rubbish with you.

@mozilla I guess AI, something nobody asked for, takes too much resources.

@mozilla You really managed to properly tank a once stellar reputation, this is a truly appropriate capstone to that effort. Good job. Now fuck off.

@mozilla How much does this instance cost for you per year compared to all the money you burn outside of your core business?

RIP bozo.

I'd like to see the Mozzarilla Sticks join other instances, but not if they're backing the corporate side of Mozilla; the AI crap, Pocket, etc.

@mozilla as a single individual who is financing alone for the majority of expenses of my Mastodon gaming instance, I will only say that I have no plans to close it and I will continue setting aside a part of my free time to serve the gaming community which has placed their trust into me as their sysadmin and their player two.

Thank you, Mozilla, for participating in Fediverse. We shall meet again.

@mozilla Pathetic

@mozilla Users: Read the room. Why don't you just sell to Google, and get out the way for a new community lead project?

Mozilla: *fingers in ears* la la la, we're not listening, talk to the AI. 😜

@mozilla Well I made the hard decision to ditch you once you pivoted to be an advertising and AI company. You won't be missed.

@mozilla Deeply disappointed in what Mozilla has become lately. Closing Mozilla Social was to be expected at some point, I guess it shows how much you care about the Fediverse when your own instance lasted just a year and a half.

At least I'm hoping you'll publish what you've learned (if anything) out of this 'experiment' soon enough.

@mozilla Thanks for the hard work. I wonder if you've considered releasing the login-with-Mozilla-account code for mozilla.social as Open Source software for others to use.

@mozilla
Sad news.

@mozilla the amount of goodwill y’all have opted to burn up over the past couple of years is absolutely staggering.

@mozilla
So you chose to support AI (high impact to climate, cannot be trained without stealing, will leave huge amounts of people without a job) instead of the fediverse.

@mozilla what about all this https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

@mozilla Sad and pathetic.

@mozilla So, you're tired of getting actual feedback from your users.

@mozilla And in the time between y'all opening and closing this account my respect for your organization has fallen off a cliff. Good work.

@mozilla Could you at least ask @firefox@threads.net to enable post federation? If they don’t know how to do it, @verge has created instructions https://www.theverge.com/24107998/threads-fediverse-mastodon-how-to

@mozilla fucking clowns.

@mozilla: s/Mastodon instance/AI/g

@mozilla The beauty of the fediverse is that you can move your stuff.

@mozilla Judging by this comment section I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving this toxic shotshow.

Thank god there are nicer corners of the Fediverse out there. But if the crowd in this comment section is the kind of people who are drawn towards commenting on on Mozilla operated platforms, there's little doubt Mozilla is better off distancing themselves as much as possible.

Christ.

@mozilla very sorry to hear this. Anyone from there that is looking for a server is welcome at IndieWeb.social.

@mozilla bye bye Mozilla! :blobcatwavereverse: Good thing we have Vivaldi here that is not Ad and AI Company like you have become! :blobcatfacepalm:

@mozilla@mozilla.social good riddance. try not to bring Firefox down with you ​:neofox_angry:​

@mozilla "we can squeeze money out of these people so what is the fucking point?"
Said the Advertising company