Overall, I’d say that most of the downvotes are people disagreeing with the article’s core criticism of Mozilla’s AI language translation using scraped content.

Given that [email protected] is the second largest Lemmy community, it’s clear from the start that piracy-bashing articles are going to have mixed reception at the best of times. In addition, the article places an undue emphasis on Mozilla’s practices rather than the industry as a whole.

Ultimately, the article should have been half as long and give readers a clear solution at the end, such as instead using a Firefox fork to make opt-out the default. While not likely to be as effective as an AI trained with non-permissive license content, such an explanation at the end could also have recommend an alternative translation AI extension to use.

In the future, perhaps try posting your article once in the most popular relevant community, and if people respond well, then crosspost it a maximum of four times. More than that and people will think you’re spamming.