Micah LeeDec 21, 2022
Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

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Show threadGrutjes

@micahflee @mozilla

So, is this good news, or is this the partner of Meta that's coming to check if there's money to be made?

Isn't the strength of mastodon the absence of big players?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla

Mozilla - Wikipedia

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Show threadPatrickFromFWDec 21, 2022
@Grutjes @micahflee @mozilla but doesn’t growth make interest from big players inevitable? It seems like Mastodon is well designed to keep them from doing things many users don’t like and getting away with it like they do on some platforms. They’ll find themselves widely blocked.
Show threadGrutjesDec 21, 2022

@PatrickFromFW @micahflee @mozilla

I would hope so, but look around, check the reactions here. I see most people cheering. Some of them say Apple should start an instance too. My reaction:

"Sure! And maybe the owner of Tesla could start a Mastodon clone as well, right?"

Mastodon might be well designed, but the capitalist mindset is deeply embedded in people. We need more than technical solutions, we need a decolonisation process of sorts.