mina Now • 40%
You did not read the entire post you first replied to, did you?
mina Now • 80%
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.
mina Now • 100%
Wasn't by far my only point.
However: Making a commitment and then pulling back, is a statement.
mina Now • 88%
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!
mina Now • 100%
Running a simple Mastodon server is not a big thing.
Setting up a resilient big instance, like Vivaldi does, requires commitment.
mina Now • 91%
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
mina Now • 100%
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?
mina Now • 90%
Yes, It was easier to do truly representative polls, when people loved answering questions and everybody had a landline.
mina Now • 100%
This is way a too revolutionary idea.
mina Now • 0%
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.
mina Now • 93%
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.
mina Now • 100%
I guess, that is what most people want.
mina Now • 50%
However: Revenue is a good thing. Being trusted by the community is infinitely more valuable.
mina Now • 0%
Good point.
mina Now • 38%
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?
mina Now • 100%
You are definitely not alone!
mina Now • 84%
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
mina Now • 94%
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
The poll is over, and the result is clear: [\#FireFox](https://berlin.social/tags/FireFox) users have very little interest for Chatbot integration into their browser. I am very much aware that the people, who voted in this poll are hardly a representative sample, but more than 2.4K people is a better size than many "professional" opinion polls. [@mozilla](https://mozilla.social/@mozilla) & [@firefox](https://lemmy.ml/c/firefox) should take people, who actually care about their [#browser](https://berlin.social/tags/browser) choice, seriously. I still seriously believe that [#Mozilla](https://berlin.social/tags/Mozilla)'s fate matters, [https://berlin.social/@mina/113102817500429735](https://berlin.social/@mina/113102817500429735) 1/3
mina Now • 87%
Hello [@firefox](https://lemmy.ml/c/firefox) Until recently, [#AltText](https://berlin.social/tags/AltText)s showed in [#FireFox](https://berlin.social/tags/FireFox) as a small box when I hovered over an image. Now, not any more. 🙁 Is this a bug or a feature, or does it only happen to me? If this is a new setting, where can it be re-enabled?
Mina Harker
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