Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.
If Google pulled out, Bing would lowball Mozilla. Yandex are untouchable given that they’re Russian and so there’s not much left.
But that’s all besides the point, removing one dependency to replace it with another doesn’t make sense, people have been clamouring for Mozilla to become self sustainable and they’re attempting to do that. The fact that people want some crazy utopia where Mozilla just replace Google’s money with donations is the problem. Though, I personally think that we as users, should be lobbying our governments and advocating for more investment in open source alternatives such as Mozilla.
It’s adding centralisation where there’s no need for any. In the same way that BlueSky cosplays as decentralized, this is what this effectively tries to move towards. In that whoever runs the relays/indexers is in control.
Of course mastodon wanna power grab
Better how? There’s no right or wrong answer, I had both.
I hear you, but it features Mastodon very prominently and Mastodon aren’t exactly reputable for supporting anything. Going as far as to implement things in a manner that breaks compatibility with other Fediverse services.
The absence of any Lemmy mention seems weird to me.
Off-topic: Are you the huginn developer? 🤩
I was talking about the server costs. For less than 300 users, the cost isn’t exorbitant.
Less than €100 a month
Different CEOs will have different visions. The old CEO believed more in the value of social and the new one is more pragmatic and wants to focus on deliverable things with tangible returns like Firefox. It’s sad though as I think killing Mozilla.social is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.
Should we be worried about the future of IPTV or is it fine?
Not available on mobile, which is sad. I consume 99% of my internet via mobile devices.
They’re not going to serve ads in page outside of sponsored tiles and things of that ilk and there’s been no suggestion otherwise.
There’s already ads in Firefox and every other major browser.
Everyone: Mozilla should find new revenue streams in order to become truly independent.
Mozilla: We’re open to suggestions
Everyone: …
Mozilla: We’re going to explore doing so in an organic method across our products using the methodology that big tech is generating money, but with a Mozilla spin.
Everyone: How dare you!
Can’t wait for all the people that are moaning about Firefox integrating AI to provide parity with every other major browser to have that same energy and lambast Google for trying to fuck over poor people with their market dominance.
Also for the record, Sundar Pichai is an idiot, how does this ever end well?
Use reader mode all the time.
Didn’t she just have a baby?
There was a point where Yahoo paid to be the default in America, Google came back at the next opportunity and doubled (IIRC) their offer.