Firefox stops posting on fElon's social media! 🥳 (bsky.app)
from Carighan@lemmy.world to firefox@fedia.io on 20 Mar 09:00
https://lemmy.world/post/27081962

Link is to the Bluesky account that tracks companies moving to Bluesky (in particular, but it is in this case so I felt it's a fitting link).

They in turn link to the Firefox Bluesky profile.

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atro_city@fedia.io on 20 Mar 09:08 next collapse

The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️‍🔥

Yeah right. It's nearly entirely funded by Google.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 09:21 next collapse

Neither the Firefox Bluesky profile nor the Twitter account mention this when I looked just now.

Carighan@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 09:42 collapse

I suspect with how litigious Musk has become, the small man he is, they didn't want to do something that could be constructed as trying to make people move away, actively?

vaguerant@fedia.io on 20 Mar 10:30 next collapse

I think the most concrete thing they've done is remove the Twitter/X icon from their web site. If you scroll down to the footer, you can see their social links, which no longer point to Twitter for either @Mozilla or @Firefox.

aasatru@kbin.earth on 20 Mar 11:17 next collapse

Links provided on Mozilla's website:

  • [x] Bluesky
  • [x] TikTok
  • [x] Instagram
  • [x] Linkedin
  • [x] Spotify
  • [x] YouTube

What's not there:

  • [ ] Mastodon
  • [ ] RSS
  • [ ] PeerTube
  • [ ] PixelFed

True champions of the open web right here.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 11:25 collapse

To be fair, if people have already seen the light, there's less use in championing to them.

aasatru@kbin.earth on 20 Mar 11:36 collapse

Would kinda be nice to communicate with them though. Right now it feels more like FireFox is disappearing from the light.

And there are plenty of people on ActivityPub who are not open source or privacy enthusiasts. I'm not saying they shouldn't communicate in other channels as well, but committing to web standards and open platforms would be a minimum degree of practising what they preach. In my opinion, anyway.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 11:55 collapse

I fully agree, but since your lists includes Mastodon, RSS, PeerTube, and PixelFed, that sounds like it's what's happening?

aasatru@kbin.earth on 20 Mar 12:00 collapse

Ah, sorry - I wrote check boxes, so [x] indicates what is there, [ ] indicates what is not. The four last options are not listed on their website.

Maybe not the most obvious syntax - I was half hoping markdown rendering on here would support check lists. :)

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 12:17 collapse

Oh! Yeah that might be the interface I'm using, it's rendering them all as bullets. Never mind then, I get your point.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 11:25 collapse

Oh that's fair enough.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 20 Mar 11:24 collapse

But from my point of view, for all I know Firefox did not stop posting on Twitter. There's only this random Bluesky post that claims it does.

rtxn@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 09:22 next collapse

It's like their entire PR department is an infinite number of monkeys banging on typewriters... it took a while, but they managed to produce an idea that wouldn't hurt their image.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:36 next collapse

Boom

katharta@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Mar 15:24 collapse

The good ones were likely lost during recent layoffs.

ladel@feddit.uk on 20 Mar 09:50 next collapse

Didn't they recently shut down their mastodon instance? Yeah, this is an improvement, but it's disappointing they didn't stick with mastodon too

Successful_Try543@feddit.org on 20 Mar 10:59 collapse

While they closed their own instance, mozilla.social, they, i.e. Mozilla, still has have an official channel on mastodon.social.

ladel@feddit.uk on 20 Mar 11:01 collapse

Yeah, but it's inactive since May 2023 as far as I can see

aasatru@kbin.earth on 20 Mar 11:07 next collapse

@mozillaofficial was last active on February 2, when it live posted from FOSDEM. :)

That they went from running their own instance to not even managing to verify their account... well, no comment.

And as for the active account on Bluesky while ignoring Mastodon... Well, I guess the open source and privacy communities are just not among their target audiences any more. They haven't even enabled Bridgy.

ladel@feddit.uk on 20 Mar 11:11 next collapse

Ah, I was looking at the mozilla handle, not mozillaofficial

Successful_Try543@feddit.org on 20 Mar 11:23 collapse

That they went […] to not even managing to verify their account.

Is there a way on Mastodon to verify an account, like the blue hook on Twitter used to be?

Well, I guess the open source and privacy communities are just not among their target audiences any more.

I think privacy aware people already use ‘vanilla’ Firefox or a derivate, so the communication and information directed towards the ‘muggles’, e.g. convincing them to use Mozilla’s software or FOSS in general, is different from that.

aasatru@kbin.earth on 20 Mar 11:32 collapse

Is there a way on Mastodon to verify an account, like the blue hook on Twitter used to be?

Yeah. For example, @thunderbird has verified their account: The link to thunderbird.net has a green background on their profile, indicating that the profile is run by whoever owns that domain.

It's super easy. You add <link href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me"> in the header of your website, and include said website in your profile on Mastodon.

You can also include a link anywhere on your website including rel="me", as in <a href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me">Follow me on Mastodon</a>

Successful_Try543@feddit.org on 20 Mar 12:09 collapse

Nice. Thank you.

Successful_Try543@feddit.org on 20 Mar 11:16 next collapse

https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial

The most recent post is from February.

Yet, I don’t know why they dont link it on their homepage.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Mar 12:51 collapse

firefox nightly posts regularly: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly

venotic@kbin.melroy.org on 20 Mar 09:57 next collapse

Cool story, Firefox. Doesn't change anything about what you personally done.

BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de on 20 Mar 10:15 next collapse

Nice from one walled garden to the next

Successful_Try543@feddit.org on 20 Mar 11:01 collapse

They have an official Mastodon account too.

BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de on 20 Mar 11:53 collapse

Didn't know that, but it seems like they have not posted anything since May 2023

AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:09 next collapse

Hardly an improvement. That is just Twitter 2.0.

nexguy@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:22 collapse

No fEeon is a giant improvement

hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works on 21 Mar 12:56 collapse

Okay, but Mozilla still sucks.