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Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. (mozilla.social)

submitted 2 months ago by 101@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a mastodon server. I don’t want them spending money on that anyways. They should be focusing on the browser, not social media infrastructure.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. They should be dropping anything that isn't revenue positive or isn't furthering the goals of browser. Rust is a great project because it's being used directly in the browser. Mastodon isn't, because it has no relationship to their browser efforts. I'm on the fence about the VPN, but if it's revenue positive, it should probably stick around, and it sort of benefits the browser as well.

[–] progandy@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The VPN is really not much more than white labelled mullvad + the browser extension with separate VPN servers per container.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Right, and if it's not profitable, it should be scrapped, but if it pays for itself, I see no harm in keeping it.