what else does Mozilla have? matrix ? @[email protected]
It seems like there is no user named “Mozilla” on the lemmy.world instance. However, Mozilla does have a variety of other projects and services apart from Firefox and Thunderbird, such as:
- Mozilla Matrix: Mozilla operates an instance of the Matrix chat protocol. You can join and communicate on their Matrix channels.
- Mozilla VPN: A virtual private network service.
- Pocket: An application for managing a reading list of articles from the web.
- Common Voice: A project to help make voice recognition open and accessible to everyone.
- MDN Web Docs: Documentation for web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
For more detailed information, you might want to visit the Mozilla website or their GitHub repository.
Until they change CEOs again. I wonder what it’d be like to not have corporate parasites everywhere
Lemmy support would be much more fitting for Mozilla. They could add plugin or lemmy integration to their browser that could show discussions from subscribed communities matching the current url.
Effectively acting as a “comment section” but for any page. One would only need lemmy account to comment on youtube videos, news articles, blogs etc.
I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:
- Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
- Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.
Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how “Lemmy integration in the browser” could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I’m missing something.
Good. Stop fucking around, focus on the browser. If they can make it provide value that Google can’t, they are succeeding. Google cant compete in privacy.
They are dropping it to focus on the important shit. Forcing bullshit genai stuff into their browser and working on adtech.
Got to love ignorant hot tapes based on article headings.
Forcing bullshit genai stuff into their browser
It’s an opt-in feature that just opens whatever AI service you picked, their website in a sidebar. You can even use your own local AI if you want to. Or not use it at all. But the AI isn’t actually in your browser any more than it is in your browser when you open their website in a tab.
If the translation thing counts as AI then that’s actually a really cool and more private use of it compared to querying a server. It can do the translation completely locally. Works pretty well too in my experience, though it does think for a moment when you tell it to translate.
I didn’t use it but the lack of an explanation is a frustrating response. Give feedback to the feedback??
They’re a small indie company and they need the server power to run the AI in Firefox
I don’t think Firefox has any AI that they need to run for you. The language thing (if that counts) is local thing.
It was a joke about how it seems they’re putting most, if not all, efforts into their AI
They’re still on Xitter, though.
I mean, maintaining an instance is a larger job than having a twitter account. I don’t think they’re all that comparable.
Yes, I think that’s natural. A large segment of their market is still there. Throwing away years of work when the accounts cost relatively little to maintain would be wasteful. I don’t see how their presence there is relevant to this discussion.
Sigh, so is Mozilla just like Google now? Can’t trust any services to stick around?
It’s a mastodon server. I don’t want them spending money on that anyways. They should be focusing on the browser, not social media infrastructure.
Exactly. They should be dropping anything that isn’t revenue positive or isn’t furthering the goals of browser. Rust is a great project because it’s being used directly in the browser. Mastodon isn’t, because it has no relationship to their browser efforts. I’m on the fence about the VPN, but if it’s revenue positive, it should probably stick around, and it sort of benefits the browser as well.
The majority of those are nothing burgers. They shut down their dedicated password app when they integrated its features into the browser, they shut down their encrypted file sharing tool when they realized it was being used for very nefarious uses, they shut down Positron and it’s affiliated projects because nobody started using it over Electron… and a lot of the rest are extremely niche (like viewing websites in 3d, cool but not all that useful).
The same now with mozilla.social. nobody is using it