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by fanso99 1269 days ago
Yes. I don't think they should invest into social media experiments. In my opinion they did a horrible job at that so far (Pocket was promising but is unusable because of its "social sharing" confusion). Social media introduces wrong incentives.

[reposting my earlier reply] Furthermore, I imagine the reason they are so keen to be a player in social media is because someone at Mozilla really promotes the idea that there is a community around Firefox (sure, Thunderbird, MDN, etc). There is no community. People who use a browser are not a community: we don't need a place to "hang out" because we all use Firefox. It's a ridiculous aspirational thinking that only moves Mozilla further into irrelevancy.
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BlueTemplar 1269 days ago
Why not, worked pretty well for Opera/Vivaldi despite them being closed source !

Also, ok, if not social media as a Mastodon instance, then what kind of project do you suggest they should start in order to acclimate themselves to the Fediverse ?

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fanso99 1268 days ago
I can't tell if you are trolling or are serious. Neither Opera nor Vivaldi have succeeded as social media platforms. They experiment a lot with different features but remain a minuscule niche browser. If that's the inspiration for Mozilla - then sure, they should go all in into social media.

> in order to acclimate themselves to the Fediverse

What does that mean? What should Ableton Live or Pixelmator Pro do to acclimate themselves to the Fediverse?

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BlueTemplar 1266 days ago
Because it's a Web standard that Mozilla should pay attention to ?
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