Oh no, everyone's talking about Mozilla again. What did they do this time?...
Oh. Shutting down their mastodon instance. Shame, but at least it doesn't affect me personally in the least. Sorry for those who are.
So farewell then mozilla dot social
You were an experiment that didn't last long
and I never used you.
Just like some other experimental features
That I also expect to never use.
And at this rate pretty soon maybe the whole browser
Good luck to those searching for a new instance.
There's really no action that stake-holders in Mozilla Corp can do to replace the CEO and change the direction of the business/charity sadly.
The bosses are clearly being rewarded for their complete failure to maintain market share, let alone grow it.
They are not investing in a free open and open-source internet, they are investing in proprietary AI systems and corporate owned social forums.
It's a shame to have seen this former charity turn into a business so thoroughly taken by the tech-bro mindset.
A petition wouldn't do it at this stage, they are entirely consumed by money.
We need to somehow fund a new browser fork interested in the open internet instead of getting their part of the pie.
Using Librewolf.
I like the way there's a special toggle to allow sites to keep cookies. Only allow those you want to keep you logged in.
Since Mozilla is merging with an advertising company and doing this "differential privacy" scam, I can't really trust them on my machine directly any more.
So long Mozilla, thanks for all the cookie-blocks.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/
@denny I find it basically exactly the same as Firefox other than the toggle to allow cookies on a site.
I've installed all the same bookmarks/plugins, in fact merely by syncing my mozilla account (though that may have to go at some point, I hear you can run your own sync server)
When I last tried it everything was great other than my TTRS site didn't work on one machine (it did work on others). It's now working fine on this machine too.
@denny Oh, it seems to have started showing the wrong icon on the pinned Mastodon tab for some reason. Some kinda graphics glitch means it's like a bar-code instead of a M bubble. 😕 It was working right before I restarted it. 🤔
Strange. Maybe it'll fix itself later.
@eliteamdgamer @denny 👍 I guess this is coz it tries to draw the number of notifications onto the icon, meaning the icon is dynamic or something?
Thanks for the tip :D
Though I do also wonder why it's rendering those glyphs wrong? Maybe Firefox would have done so too.
[Checked: yes, firefox also missing those glyphs]
Adam Dalliance
Denny
Yuki Linux