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Firefox stops posting on fElon's social media! 🥳 (bsky.app)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/firefox@fedia.io
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Link is to the Bluesky account that tracks companies moving to Bluesky (in particular, but it is in this case so I felt it's a fitting link).

They in turn link to the Firefox Bluesky profile.

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[-] ladel@feddit.uk 53 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't they recently shut down their mastodon instance? Yeah, this is an improvement, but it's disappointing they didn't stick with mastodon too

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While they closed their own instance, mozilla.social, they, i.e. Mozilla, still has ~~have~~ an official channel on mastodon.social.

[-] ladel@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but it's inactive since May 2023 as far as I can see

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 24 points 2 weeks ago

@mozillaofficial@mastodon.social was last active on February 2, when it live posted from FOSDEM. :)

That they went from running their own instance to not even managing to verify their account... well, no comment.

And as for the active account on Bluesky while ignoring Mastodon... Well, I guess the open source and privacy communities are just not among their target audiences any more. They haven't even enabled Bridgy.

[-] ladel@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, I was looking at the mozilla handle, not mozillaofficial

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That they went [...] to not even managing to verify their account.

Is there a way on Mastodon to verify an account, like the blue hook on Twitter used to be?

Well, I guess the open source and privacy communities are just not among their target audiences any more.

I think privacy aware people already use 'vanilla' Firefox or a derivate, so the communication and information directed towards the 'muggles', e.g. convincing them to use Mozilla's software or FOSS in general, is different from that.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 9 points 2 weeks ago

Is there a way on Mastodon to verify an account, like the blue hook on Twitter used to be?

Yeah. For example, @thunderbird@mastodon.online has verified their account: The link to thunderbird.net has a green background on their profile, indicating that the profile is run by whoever owns that domain.

It's super easy. You add <link href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me"> in the header of your website, and include said website in your profile on Mastodon.

You can also include a link anywhere on your website including rel="me", as in <a href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me">Follow me on Mastodon</a>

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nice. Thank you.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial

The most recent post is from February.

Yet, I don't know why they dont link it on their homepage.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

It's like their entire PR department is an infinite number of monkeys banging on typewriters... it took a while, but they managed to produce an idea that wouldn't hurt their image.

[-] katharta@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

The good ones were likely lost during recent layoffs.

[-] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 22 points 2 weeks ago

Nice from one walled garden to the next

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They have an official Mastodon account too.

[-] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't know that, but it seems like they have not posted anything since May 2023

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago

Neither the Firefox Bluesky profile nor the Twitter account mention this when I looked just now.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I suspect with how litigious Musk has become, the small man he is, they didn't want to do something that could be constructed as trying to make people move away, actively?

[-] vaguerant@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think the most concrete thing they've done is remove the Twitter/X icon from their web site. If you scroll down to the footer, you can see their social links, which no longer point to Twitter for either @Mozilla or @Firefox.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 10 points 2 weeks ago

Links provided on Mozilla's website:

  • [x] Bluesky
  • [x] TikTok
  • [x] Instagram
  • [x] Linkedin
  • [x] Spotify
  • [x] YouTube

What's not there:

  • [ ] Mastodon
  • [ ] RSS
  • [ ] PeerTube
  • [ ] PixelFed

True champions of the open web right here.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, if people have already seen the light, there's less use in championing to them.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago

Would kinda be nice to communicate with them though. Right now it feels more like FireFox is disappearing from the light.

And there are plenty of people on ActivityPub who are not open source or privacy enthusiasts. I'm not saying they shouldn't communicate in other channels as well, but committing to web standards and open platforms would be a minimum degree of practising what they preach. In my opinion, anyway.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

I fully agree, but since your lists includes Mastodon, RSS, PeerTube, and PixelFed, that sounds like it's what's happening?

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, sorry - I wrote check boxes, so [x] indicates what is there, [ ] indicates what is not. The four last options are not listed on their website.

Maybe not the most obvious syntax - I was half hoping markdown rendering on here would support check lists. :)

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh! Yeah that might be the interface I'm using, it's rendering them all as bullets. Never mind then, I get your point.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh that's fair enough.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

But from my point of view, for all I know Firefox did not stop posting on Twitter. There's only this random Bluesky post that claims it does.

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hardly an improvement. That is just Twitter 2.0.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

No fEeon is a giant improvement

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Okay, but Mozilla still sucks.

[-] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Cool story, Firefox. Doesn't change anything about what you personally done.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️‍🔥

Yeah right. It's nearly entirely funded by Google.

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