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Xandru ⁂Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP Thanks for uploading the episodes to peertube nick. I recently abandoned YT and you are one of the few good ones who does both, wich is appreciated

Marián Kyral Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes

Thanks…

Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅Mar 12, 2025

@mkyral @thelinuxEXP thank you for watching.

@thelinuxEXP Great video! I just feel the whole thing has been very poorly communicated. What @ryanleesipes is doing here Mozilla should have been doing from the very beginning. We're a fairly big Firefox redistributor and there has been no communication towards us. And it does make people nervous here.

BTW is there any particular reason why the video is only 720p on PeerTube and 1080p on YouTube?

Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅Mar 12, 2025

@sesivany @thelinuxEXP that's a good call out Jiri. We should create some group that facilitates that communication. Are you volunteering for it?

@ryanleesipes @thelinuxEXP I wonder if the [email protected] mailing list could serve as a platform for the communication. I think all people interested in Firefox deployed in an enterprise environment are there. Someone posted a question about it yesterday. But no communication from Mozilla.

@sesivany @ryanleesipes No, it’s likely just because transcoding isn’t finished yet :)

sebulon Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes It's awesome of you to upload to PeerTube, I love that! ❤️

If it's not too much to ask, could you also post PeerTube links in your posts going forward? Because I didn't even know you did that.

@sebulon @sesivany @ryanleesipes You can follow the Peertube channel on Mastodon directly, and get a post for each video automatically ;)

sebulon Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes Yes now I know and I am, thank you! Still, I think it would be great to raise awareness of PeerTube as alternative, as many (like myself) didn't even know about it.

@sesivany @thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes It has also been very poorly communicated by the wider community by making the usual not so useful noise in aiding to understand what's actually happening.

@auser @thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes IMHO it is only amplification of the original poor communication. I don't mean to critise, it's just really hard to get it right sometimes. Speaking from experience. We at Red Hat have had our share of poor public communication. 🙈

@sesivany @auser @ryanleesipes I think we can’t dismiss the entire thing as just miscommunication, and outrage amplifying that. There ARE valid causes for concern behind the stuff that’s has been explained :)

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes Not dismissing the entire thing as miscommunication but miscommunication is a very big problem in social media, specially now, and the FOSS community is not exempt of that. Everybody needs to be more aware of their behavior and try to understand and be empathetic on how things are on the perceived "opposite side" and respond accordingly.

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes In summary: Rants are not helpful feedback.

@auser @sesivany @ryanleesipes I’d counter that by: it’s not necessarily the goal to be productive, or the role of any commentator to be productive.

Ranting and criticizing without offering solutions is 100% ok, and fine. Just because we don’t have a solution, or we don’t show understanding for the 100th miscommunication doesn’t mean what we’re ranting about isn’t valid ;)

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes I don't think ranting is criticizing, or how it should be understood. Criticizing offers arguments and explanations like you did in your video. Ranting does not offer these.

BTW, I'm not directly refringir to you Nick (i like your channel a lot), but there's a thing that content creators could address more explicitly and that probably you are already aware of: How negative communications are sometimes at least part of the fuel of a successful media channel.

@auser @sesivany @ryanleesipes ah well, I guess it depends on what we call « ranting » (most people who listen to my ramblings call my stuff the weekly rant 😁) !

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes I'm sure they mean that kindly 😄

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes If it's useful as a reference, here's an example of cynical take on what happened: https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ?feature=shared

These people are actually profiting form situations like these.

FireFox Changes ToS - They Will Sell Your Data

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@thelinuxEXP There are definitely legitimate concerns. Imagine you have customers who type top secret information into Firefox and you learn without prior notice that ToS now requires them to license all that stuff to Mozilla and it's undercommunicated with "trust us, we are doing it in good faith".
@ryanleesipes

Pavel Machek Mar 13, 2025

@sesivany @thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes Just because you have right to copy data does not mean you have right to sublicense data. So Mozilla is just violating copyrights (and claims to make other people violate copyright). That ToS is just not okay, also notice how it can change at any time. I can't believe this is even legal in most of the world.

Ponda Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes I did… something, yay!

Slade Watkins Mar 12, 2025

@thelinuxEXP Only a few minutes in, but already I'm greatly appreciating the conversation.

Darohan Mar 13, 2025

@thelinuxEXP on the regulatory pressure point, this is starting to seem like "we may sell your data" is going to become the new "contains substances known to cause cancer" (California Prop 65) with such a broad definition, which is unfortunate because it will end up diluting the meaning :/

James Mar 13, 2025

@thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes I imagine a lot of folks will be watching this like a hawk.