@CrypticCoffee

You did not read the entire post you first replied to, did you?

@CrypticCoffee

I wonder, how increasing CEO pay year by year worked out for them.

Certainly, definitely not in growing the user base, but also not in revenue that would make up it.

@CrypticCoffee

Wasn’t by far my only point.

However: Making a commitment and then pulling back, is a statement.

@morrowind

Exactly! Mozilla wants people to know, they don’t give a shit.

A few years of party for executives are still possible, and just before Firefox and Thunderbird go into oblivion, quickly into a new management position at an ai company (or whatever may be the hype, then).

Mark my words!

@everton137

Running a simple Mastodon server is not a big thing.

Setting up a resilient big instance, like Vivaldi does, requires commitment.

@dantheclamman

@dantheclamman

I am definitely starting to hate #Mozilla.

As a remark: I have always been fine with their deal with Pocket and having Google as their default search engine. In the end, there are bills to be paid.

Until I learned that e.g. Mozilla Corporation’s CEO is on a multi-million dollar salary, and they’re hiring ai and ad people.

Not OK for an entity where many highly skilled people code for free.

It’s not what users want the cash to be spent on.

Leaving the Fedi is the final drop

@Buddahriffic

Same!

But isn’t it a bit sad, we’ve all become so paranoic whilst at the same time being total oblivious to sharing lots of data, just because we want to know what the kitten did to the alligator?

@Buddahriffic

Yes, It was easier to do truly representative polls, when people loved answering questions and everybody had a landline.

@Eiri

Oh fuck!

I’m way too used to CaMelCase, it seems.

@Uncle_Abbie

This is way a too revolutionary idea.

@el_abuelo

Somehow, that’s true, but:

These days, hardly anyone chooses an independent browser because of some cool and shiny feature.

The same goes for social networks.

So, I guess, here we have a reasonably similar minded demographic.

@JackbyDev

I’m sorry.

It was certainly never my intention to impose myself like an official channel or something like that.

I still welcome a debate here.

@jangdonggun

Of course, it’s not official.

I made this poll, as just a normal Fedi user.

It got more attention than I had anticipated, though.

@Lettuceeatlettuce

I guess, that is what most people want.

@something_random_tho

However: Revenue is a good thing. Being trusted by the community is infinitely more valuable.

@something_random_tho

Good point.

@cmeio

Yes and no.

Obviously, the people questioned here, are not representative for the entire FF user community.

However: The Fediverse at large is a community of mostly tech-savvy people, who do care about independence from major corporations.

These are, in fact, also the people who are the core users and developers of FOSS software.

Whilst the exact percentage means nothing, the tendency is so clear that it should, at least, be taken into consideration.

Did you read part 2 & 3?

@_haha_oh_wow_

You are definitely not alone!

Fake Professionalism!

I don’t believe that CEOs, who demand a 7 digit salary, have the ability to understand the soul and heart of a collective of people (in the case of many #FOSS projects: some of the world’s most skilled and talented programmers), who donate lots of their time and energy for a project they believe in, and hence lack the credibility and skills necessary for making them thrive in the long term.

Firefox’s ever falling market share proves that.

3/3

#RFC

@mozilla @firefox

as being a prominent and established way of accessing the internet without using a product owned by one of three three tech giants.

No niche browser can play the same role.

To me, hopping onto a running train doesn’t seem to be the way to go when it comes to creating and keeping trust:

People, who think that cars are a terrible way of getting people around in cities, don’t want another Tesla, they want a good bike.

Here we have a problem, common to many non-profits:

2/3

@mozilla @firefox