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I am shocked. Shocked! /s

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[–] mina@berlin.social 130 points 1 month ago (20 children)

@dantheclamman

I am definitely starting to hate #Mozilla.

As a remark: I have always been fine with their deal with Pocket and having Google as their default search engine. In the end, there are bills to be paid.

Until I learned that e.g. Mozilla Corporation's CEO is on a multi-million dollar salary, and they're hiring ai and ad people.

Not OK for an entity where many highly skilled people code for free.

It's not what users want the cash to be spent on.

Leaving the Fedi is the final drop

[–] everton137@social.vivaldi.net 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

@mina @dantheclamman if so many people code for free, couldn't they have a simple Mastodon server run by a tech community? I think the actual leadership has no idea what Mozilla Foundation was.

[–] mina@berlin.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@everton137

Running a simple Mastodon server is not a big thing.

Setting up a resilient big instance, like Vivaldi does, requires commitment.

@dantheclamman

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean vivaldi is 1/10th the size of mozilla and running a server 5x as large

[–] mina@berlin.social 13 points 1 month ago

@morrowind

Exactly! Mozilla wants people to know, they don't give a shit.

A few years of party for executives are still possible, and just before Firefox and Thunderbird go into oblivion, quickly into a new management position at an ai company (or whatever may be the hype, then).

Mark my words!

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