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.
Okay, but Mozilla still sucks.
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
While they closed their own instance,
mozilla.social, they, i.e. Mozilla, still hashavean official channel onmastodon.social.Yeah, but it’s inactive since May 2023 as far as I can see
@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.
Ah, I was looking at the mozilla handle, not mozillaofficial
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.
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>Nice. Thank you.
firefox nightly posts regularly: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly
https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial
The most recent post is from February.
Yet, I don’t know why they dont link it on their homepage.
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.
The good ones were likely lost during recent layoffs.
Boom
Nice from one walled garden to the next
They have an official Mastodon account too.
Didn’t know that, but it seems like they have not posted anything since May 2023
Neither the Firefox Bluesky profile nor the Twitter account mention this when I looked just now.
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?
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
or.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.
To be fair, if people have already seen the light, there’s less use in championing to them.
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.
I fully agree, but since your lists includes Mastodon, RSS, PeerTube, and PixelFed, that sounds like it’s what’s happening?
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. :)
Oh that’s fair enough.
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.
Hardly an improvement. That is just Twitter 2.0.
No fEeon is a giant improvement
Cool story, Firefox. Doesn’t change anything about what you personally done.
The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️🔥
Yeah right. It’s nearly entirely funded by Google.
