Mozilla (@mozilla@mozilla.social)
mozilla.social
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).
  • blue@diagonlemmyAEnglish
    1•5 hours ago

    Thats sad. I’m sure mozilla could have pushed the Fediverse

  • katy ✨English
    7•1 day ago

    i’m legitimately sad about this since i loved having a nice wholesome social media network that actually takes moderation seriously to keep up trolls and harassers :(

    • Draconic NEOEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      It is sad, really thought they were trying to do something good but I guess they were just trying to chase trends, they’re pursuing the AI trend now heavily, and a lot of Firefox users are pissed about it, many think they are shutting down because they don’t get the positive feedback and enthusiasm about AI that they were hoping to on Mastodon, as they do on other platforms like twitter and threads.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      1•17 hours ago

      Probably because nobody was using it.

      307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

      • @vvvvv@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•2 days ago

        Gutting defeated/ousted manager’s projects is an obligatory and unavoidable ritual in corporate environment. Competent or convenient employees are pulled into other teams, pesky/unconvenient ICs are fired since everything can be pinned on the loser. Projects are often dismantled - even profitable ones to remove any possible foothold for a comeback. Shit, now I want to write a corpo book but styled like high school biology textbook.

  • @Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17•2 days ago

    Well running a server and no longer interacting with a service can be two different things. From an organizational standpoint I could absolutely understand them not wanting or needing the expense of another service to maintain. Even for just their own use. As long as they still have accounts and post to the fediverse. I don’t see a big issue

    • @barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      3•2 days ago

      They’ll probably still have an instance in the sense that mozilla folks with have @mozilla.social addresses. That’s the kind of thing their hosting staff can easily administer on the side, and moderation is already covered by HR.

  • @mke@programming.devEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    The replies are a prime example of the fediverse microblogging sphere’s greatest qualities.

    This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

  • t�mEnglish
    4•2 days ago

    I was actually thinking about to go through the profile directory and follow interesting people on there. I guess I should wait.

    • @narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•2 days ago

      Might be actually better to follow them now. In case these profiles move to another instance, you will still follow them after the move. But if you don’t follow them it might be harder to find out if and where they moved to, to find them again.