Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future | TechCrunch
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Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7456748

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

  • Kaldo@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Yeah but Google won, they became the biggest and now can do whatever they want. Unless Mozilla gets close (and I dont think they ever will, even remotely), I dont think they’re in the same situation. Until then I kinda just root for them to survive and exist as competition, even if they have such a small market share compared to google.

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      It also took several years of utter dominance before they started to drift into their current monstrousness. It’s not just that they won, but they also stayed winning.

    • Snoopy@jlai.lu
      1·
      1 year ago

      Even if Mozilla don’t have a huge marketshare, they were behind Rust language. :)