The trolls in the comment section at least hints at the fact that creating a more positive and constructive online space proved more difficult than they imagined.

I was curious, and joined the queue for the closed beta a long time ago. Never heard back. They explored something new in closed channels, decided not to go for it, backed out. I don't really think they need to justify the decision.

Running a social media is a huge effort, and there's a lot of trolls out there actively targeting Mozilla. I imagine it's just more trouble than it's worth.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Everyone: I wish Mozilla would just focus on their browser and not their other BS

fast forward to them cutting costs on a Mastodon server that nobody uses

Everyone: WTF???? I KNEW MOZILLA WAS A FAILURE OF A COMPANY CORPORATIONS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS WHAT CLOWNS

Threads like this make me wonder why any corporation would bother with the fediverse when this is how most people are on mastodon

[–] rglullis@communick.news 15 points 2 months ago

If they were shutting down their mastodon instance but continuing their efforts to work on Social Media that is open and not just an instrument of Surveillance Capitalism, you'd have a point.

But they didn't. They shut down the instance because of some internal political struggle and their interest in becoming an ad company themselves.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

The only redeeming feature about this is that it only looks about as awful as any other social media.

Which is not very redeeming at all, of course.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Good, i hope they don't bother with the Fediverse. Corporations can fuck off out of our people spaces.

[–] bannanaente@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Folks in that masto thread were being quite rude. Like it's ok to be upset, but not nasty.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 6 points 2 months ago

They shouldn't be "running a social media", they should be working on making their browser the best client for the Social Graph that is ActivityPub.