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
@blogdiva the steady erosion of Firefox has been really sad and frustrating. I have almost as hard a time convincing anyone to use it instead of Edge, Safari, or Chrome, as I do converting people to Linux