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Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
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welcome! Most mastodon clients require "https://" in front of the link to make it clickable ☺️
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sweet, I'm glad to see Mozilla taking part in the fediverse. Now if they would bring back the phoenix name to something that'd bring me joy haha
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Welcome to Mastodon! You should consider adding a verified link in your bio so we know this account is legitimate.
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looking forward to it! I had such a hard time deciding which server to join, one run by Mozilla would have been a clear winner. If this goes well, maybe built-in support for navigating the Fediverse could be a differentiating feature for Firefox?
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This is great! If this first step is successful linking Firefox identity to Mastodon Accounts and integrating to Pocket could be amazing….
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Just wrote about trends and how #Mastodon is a better option (and why), check here if you'd like: boredmilieblog.wordpress.com/2…
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Oh wow! That's great news! We need more companies like Mozilla to host Mastodon!
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Clickable link: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
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Didn't Vivaldi roll out their own Mastodon instance as of their latest browser release?

vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-…

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Love this sentence in the last paragraph, sums up the problem statement well IMHO -

"In private hands our [social media] choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought."

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What if Google or Microsoft want to have their own instances. Could big players force the little ones out, take it over and leave us vulnerable to another Musk?
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how will you measure your success? I don't want to see this exciting Mozilla effort fizzle!
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And the great Vivaldi browser has Mastodon built right in and their server instance social.vivaldi.net/
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Great, but can we please have verified links on this profile for validation purposes? Thanks, and looking forward to see what develops ... :)
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This is fantastic news. Once one corporation makes the move, more will follow. The fediverse is quite pleasant, and I can’t wait to integrate Firefox with Mastadon (albeit I’m on my app at present but the browser version is richer).
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Is it official mozilla? There is no website verification 😶
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Welcome! You keep the hope for a free internet alive, Mozilla.
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You should verify through the org’s website: opensource.com/article/22/11/v…
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In what country is mozilla.social going to be hosted? It'd be interesting to know the applicable laws that would reign over that instance.
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Welcome to the #Fediverse, @mozilla! Yeah, let’s get moving! 💚🌱

"In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. "

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

#moa #TwitterMigration

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This is excellent news. Hope more well known tech companies follow this trend.
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dammit shoulda announced it earlier and I woulda created my account on your server.
Good stuff though Mozilla 🤜🤛
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I'd be curious to see what's different. How does one create a healthy social media? Will it just be your own smaller twitter, with stricter rules?
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Excellent! I think you have a brilliant opportunity here. It would be great to have easy access to federated services that cover the whole gamut of current #SoMe capabilities including being able to access all platforms from one place and choosing how to share data with those platforms, if at all. I really like the #Mastodon set up of protecting posts by only permitting searching by hashtag.
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this will need all the same oversight and compliance with EU (as one example) law in regards to content as any of the other major players. How does Mozilla intend to deal with that? Is there a big recruitment drive to come?
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welcome - please verify your account so we know it's really you
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Fifteen years late to the distributed social web party - and then not actually committing, just "exploring". For somebody who downloaded the early Mozilla nightlies via dial-up and got excited when it would load and render #Slashdot and stay up for a good 30 seconds before crashing, Corporate Zombie Mozilla is both ridiculous and heartbreaking.
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That's fantastic news! Welcome to the Fediverse!

And thank you for making the conscious decision to use the word #Fediverse, instead of the brand of just one particular type of Fediverse server among myriad others.

I've assembled a short list of platforms available to choose from here:

write.as/tallship/making-bette…

Particular favorites for many are those of #Friendica, #Akkoma, #Soapbox, #Hometown and #Calkey.

Don't forget to checkout other Mastodon forks like Glitch-Soc too 🙂

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Mozilla and Proton are the two best companies to save the web
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work with @Gargron on content moderation and features. Key features require technical skills; you handle that very well. Therefore, content moderation * will * separate @Mastodon ....look into Quora and Twitter (and their potential and failings). We look forward to seeing you here.
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the fact that Mozilla is doing this is great. I would love to talk someone at Mozilla about it on my podcast, if that's of any interest.
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good! next step is firing Mitchell Baker to regain trust in Mozilla!
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Welcome. Don't forget to add a link from your the social media links on the Mozilla web site - it's not there yet!
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There are few orgs I trust online as much as @mozilla . This is great news.
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woohoo! Great minds! We are a proud supporter of the mstdn.ca instance
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one post, over 4300 followers and counting. I'd say your arrival is welcomed ;)
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one post, over 4300 followers and counting. I'd say your arrival is welcomed ;)
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declares intent on #fediverse - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

With their track of incubating #RustLang I'm curious how this pans out.

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This should be interesting.

Since Mozilla is also behind Thunderbird, I wonder if this means we might also see proper threaded reader support for social media, just like we had in the 90s?

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what's the point of a "global" Mastodon instance, unspecific to any one community?
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A lot of promises, PR talk and more blabla. But most importantly, what kind of instance/server are you going to be? Are you going to moderate?
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interestong to see how this works out but is anyone else having trouble following this account?
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Great news ! Hope Mozilla up owned instance of Mastodon in future
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When you are ready, consider using this simple tool - Twittodon.com 😉
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"In private hands our choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought." 🙏🙏
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I've been on Chrome for a decade, but if Firefox builds in integrated support for Mastodon I would absolutely switch back. :D
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How do you plan on instituting moderation in the ways that mastodon.social has been failing?

Will you be contributing to the codebase? It could use some thoughtful design at your caliber.

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I am SO there.

♥️ y'all!

I already pay you, but I'll bump it. 😃

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I've been waiting for something like this for awhile. We need your open source, people-first mentality on this problem. I'm hoping your reach as a global partner can make Mastodon relevant to everyone. . . we need everyone working together on alternatives to this rather stifling current environment. Was pretty horrified to see journalists thrown off the bird while criminals were welcomed back on. . . Here's to an anti-toxicity internet.
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Is there anywhere in particular we can watch progress on this project? ❤
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Uh, the pretense that social media's problems isnt far right robots spewing lies, hate, anger, bullshit and pus, is pointless and strange.

And NOTHING done will stop the billionaires like Elon trying to destroy it if they cant take it over and make ot into Truth Social, as Elon has done to the late twitter platform.

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Why would people trust your instance?

Remember Mozilla Persona?

Because I still do.