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The writing was on the wall anyway. With the news of the political struggles between Steve Teixeira (who was pushing for deeper integration with open social web
by rglullis 2y ago
The writing was on the wall anyway. With the news of the political struggles between Steve Teixeira (who was pushing for deeper integration with open social web) and Laura Chambers (who seems more interested in keeping Google happy to receive the fat checks) it was clear that the whole "Let's open an instance and call an experiment with new social media" was just a way to pretend they were doing anything in the space while not hurting any of Big Tech's feelings.
Back in May I wrote a series of blog posts about mozilla.social, ActivityPub and what I thought could be done instead. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428098)
- stefan_ 2y ago> [Steve Teixeira] began a new effort to explore Moz Social, an ethical social media product. I don't understand.. was this "Moz Social"? What is "Moz Social"? Google believes its the forums of some SEO bullshit company. Did the "Open Social Web" have 300 users? God knows they did that guy dirty, but the executives at Mozilla really are a hopeless bunch.