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Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon

techcrunch.com Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future | TechCrunch

Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...

"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw.... existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement... "

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I like Mozilla, I respect their mission and their good nature. I can’t help but feel the billions they receive from Google make it too easy for them to be, at best, unfocused and, at worst, lazy. They offer a lot of random services like this. I fear this play is just chasing another possible mediocre revenue generator for them. Like pocket, like Mozilla vpn and private relay, etc.
We desperately need a company like Mozilla to take the reigns of something like Lemmy. The original developers are far too biased and short sighted to see the bigger picture, it needs to be an independent group that promotes more open source development.
They're a bit late to the party, but better late than never...
I hope there instance doesn't get really big. That would be a recipe for disaster especially since they don't seem to have a plan to financial stability
So it's moza?
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