your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 14, 2024

it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.

fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.

make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Memo details layoffs, “strategic corrections,” and a desire for “trustworthy” AI.

Ars Technica
Show threadunixninja92
@blogdiva I think people vastly underestimate the amount of capital needed to fund development and maintenance of a modern browser engine. There's a good reason there's only really 3 browser engines today, blink(google), webkit (safari), and gecko(Firefox). Microsoft switched edge to be chromium based because it was so much cheaper and this is Microsoft we're talking about. Without Google's funding I'm not sure how well Firefox could be maintained.
Feb 15, 2024 at 5:08pmWeb
Show threadFabio G.Feb 15, 2024

@unixninja92

Sounds like the complexity of the web should be scaled back until building a browser is no harder than building, say, a videogame

@blogdiva