Conversation

Notices

1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 17:33:33 JST Aral Balkan

   Mozilla: We’re going to start cannibalising babies

   Tech apologists: Well, developers gotta eat too…

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 17:53:07 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Fabien

     @fabienmarry I couldn’t care less. As their head of public policy once told me, they’re “just another Silicon Valley tech company.” So they’re the wrong vehicle to provide a browser for the common good (or anything else). And yes, I could care less how just another Silicon Valley tech company funds itself. What I do care about is them representing themselves publicly as something they are not, being a honeypot for devs who care, and generally sucking all the air out of the room.

   • Fabien (fabienmarry@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 17:53:08 JST Fabien

     in reply to

     @aral I get that Mozilla getting into ads is unpopular. But you've also highlighted their dependancy on Google as problematic.

     How would you recommend they fund themselves?

   • hamish campbell (hamishcampbell@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 17:55:26 JST hamish campbell

     in reply to

     @aral Am curease why you don't interact with socialhub, yes it's a mess, yes people can be pointless, but it is the grassroots space, and these are the people we need to try and work with, composting comes to mind.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 17:55:26 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • hamish campbell

     @hamishcampbell Socialhub? Gotta link?

     (I’m up to my neck in dev so have very little time in general.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:05:45 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Fabien

     @fabienmarry No, you fund independent organisations from the commons.

   • Fabien (fabienmarry@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:05:46 JST Fabien

     in reply to

     @aral Ok, so then who provide browsers? Just Google and Apple?…

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:45:53 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • hamish campbell

     @hamishcampbell Thanks, will have a look.

   • hamish campbell (hamishcampbell@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 18:45:54 JST hamish campbell

     in reply to

     @aral it's messy and It's here https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ just went through one of its circals of crises, coming out the other end. Q what value for you is on this Grassroot paths?