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Aral Balkan Dec 21, 2022

#Mozilla is creating a fediverse instance. What is Mozilla?

• A “not-for-profit” that owns multiple for-profit businesses and pays its CEO $5.6M
• Gets ~83% of its revenue (~$500,000,000) every year from surveillance capitalist Google
• Makes a browser that protects your privacy (*some configuration required)
• Is now a VC…

This is the best we can expect from Silicon Valley/capitalism. Question is: can we do better than that?

Sources: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf, https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf

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Aral Balkan Dec 21, 2022

… Perhaps the best way to understand Mozilla is in the words of their president on their new VC arm:

“We see a lot of startups who want to tackle things like privacy, trustworthy AI, and alternatives to Twitter… alternatives are not going to emerge unless there’s founders and companies who build them. And the founders are not going to build them unless there’s money aligned with their vision … So I think we need to still be about commerce and creating wealth”

https://www.yahoo.com/video/mozilla-foundation-mark-surman-rethinking-120004066.html

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thomkennon Dec 21, 2022

@aral Yeah fuck this valley bro hate cult. Thx for sharing this. Will be ditching his surveillance layer. Recos for comrade-friendly browser alternatives?

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@thomkennon @aral Ladybird is extremely promisng: https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird – and yes, it cross platform and not limited to SerenityOS

GitHub - SerenityOS/ladybird: The Ladybird web browser

The Ladybird web browser. Contribute to SerenityOS/ladybird development by creating an account on GitHub.

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