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Digging their own grave.

Care to elaborate what you mean by this? There's a lot of valid criticism of Mozilla in 2023 but what this article is talking about doesn't seem like it on the surface.

Look at their website, it's just a twitter clone.

How will Mozilla compete with Meta, Twitter?

https://mozilla.social/public/local

Content is complete garbage.

Decentralisation isn't a feature for 99.9% of people.

It's just a mastodon instance, not something new - part of the fediverse.

This is what the article is saying there’s a waitlist for and it’s also going to be moderated. So how is it going to be different than Twitter?

I guess you didn't know about mastodon until now. I have joined there but social media isn't really for me, so I can't really speak for it: https://joinmastodon.org

I don't think it has a chance to ever be as popular as twitter, simply because they don't want to add features to make it addictive.

Decentralization is a feature for the type of people who use Firefox. Mozilla's pivoting towards being a haven for the types of people who don't like their data being sold or mined.

The majority or Mozilla’s revenue is from “search partnerships”.

Thanks for the link, I didn't even know that existed. The content is about exactly what I'd have expected for users of a Mozilla social network. Take that to mean what you will.

> How will Mozilla compete with Meta, Twitter?

This is the wrong framing. We should be asking how the Fediverse will compete with mainstream social media. Mozilla is just doing one part of a larger collective project. And so far Fedi has done so pretty well considering the relative amount of manpower behind development. And there's a lot of reasons for that.

We're already entombed under deep layers of enshittification caused by excessive centralization. So if they're digging a grave it's just to meet us where we're at.

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