Mastodawn

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

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Kevin Russell 22h ago

@javi

Time to fork Mozilla Firefox, not just edit it.

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Tock 22h ago

@kevinrns @javi Been saying that for a while, and sea lions pop back in barking that all forks fail when politics and user demands collide. (Apparently they never heard of LibreOffice, Tenacity, etc. Projects born of behind the scenes f*ckery, people having enough, forking it, and still going.)

Been on Waterfox the last year, hoping Servo is making good progress. If they go public next year, Firefox can go back to Brendan Eich for all I care and become Brave Lite.

#FuckMozilla

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berdario

@Tock @kevinrns @javi Indeed, the effort might fail, but it's worth the shot. Since there are several forks already, we should just make sure that what we end up rallying for has a good governance model (that won't let it be easily hijacked like Mozilla). If the fork overtakes the original in marketshare, then there's a hope that the funding that Mozilla gets from Google would instead go to Waterfox (or Librewolf, or whatever...), which would make its development more sustainable.