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Firefox stops posting on fElon's social media! 🥳 (bsky.app)
submitted 2 years ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/firefox@fedia.io
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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.

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[-] ladel@feddit.uk 53 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While they closed their own instance, mozilla.social, they, i.e. Mozilla, still has ~~have~~ an official channel on mastodon.social.

[-] ladel@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but it's inactive since May 2023 as far as I can see

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial

The most recent post is from February.

Yet, I don't know why they dont link it on their homepage.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] katharta@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

The good ones were likely lost during recent layoffs.

[-] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 21 points 2 years ago

Nice from one walled garden to the next

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They have an official Mastodon account too.

[-] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 5 points 2 years ago

Didn't know that, but it seems like they have not posted anything since May 2023

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

Neither the Firefox Bluesky profile nor the Twitter account mention this when I looked just now.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] vaguerant@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago

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 @Mozilla or @Firefox.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Oh that's fair enough.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hardly an improvement. That is just Twitter 2.0.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

No fEeon is a giant improvement

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Okay, but Mozilla still sucks.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️‍🔥

Yeah right. It's nearly entirely funded by Google.

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