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wraptile fosstodon.org wraptile@fosstodon.org
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firefox announcing it's going back to x.com

@firefox shame ๐Ÿ”” shame ๐Ÿ”” shame ๐Ÿ”” #firefox

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owenfromcanada lemmy.ca owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-18
#2 · Quote Reply

"We've decided to mingle with Nazis again"

It's important to use clear language.

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InternetCitizen2 lemmy.world InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#3 · Quote Reply

"We've decided to mingle with Nazis again" It's important to use clear language.

Idk it depends. Can't evangelize the better way here because we know, those at X might not. FOSS is still a niche.

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Solumbran lemmy.world Solumbran@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#4 · Quote Reply

Idk it depends. Can't evangelize the better way here because we know, those at X might not. FOSS is still a niche.

Those at X don't care.

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we are all crazypeople.online crazycraw@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-06-30
#5 · Quote Reply

booooo fuck the site formerly known as Twitter.

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder reddthat.com ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#6 · Quote Reply

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-22
#7 · Quote Reply

Why the fuck did they think coming back was a good idea? The internet is changing for the worse and xitter is one of the places that is making it worse, abandoning that shithole is a step into making things better

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Marthirial lemmy.world Marthirial@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-05-01
#8 · Quote Reply

They are positioning to inject CSAM generator Grok in the browser.

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[object Object] lemmy.ca panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-20
#9 · Quote Reply

What? Theyโ€™re still run by the AI child porn generating nazis.

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bluGill fedia.io bluGill@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-15
#10 · Quote Reply

@wraptile@fosstodon.org Wayland is the future, stop flirting with X, it is dead dead dead!

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Kenny2999 lemmy.world Kenny2999@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-07
#11 · Quote Reply

Oh well. Uninstall and move on. 'Twas a good run.

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StillAlive piefed.world StillAlive@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-11-09
#12 · Quote Reply

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Why are you bringing Hindus into this?

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sidebro lemmy.zip sidebro@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-09-17
#13 · Quote Reply

Why do they always seem so out of touch, it saddens me

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TemplaerDude sh.itjust.works TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-07-09
#14 · Quote Reply

Itโ€™s one thing to continue using the fascism pedophile app. Itโ€™s something else to leave and come back.

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deepfryerdan sh.itjust.works _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-03-10
#15 · Quote Reply

Oh well. Uninstall and move on. 'Twas a good run.

tbh, chromium is better anyway. i had to switch to that for work stuff and its been blowing ff out of the water

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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#16 · Quote Reply

Oh well. Uninstall and move on. 'Twas a good run.

Google funds fascist political campaigns and I don't think Mozilla does. Seems worse to me than using shitter. And it doesn't matter if you are using another chromium fork, Google is still getting more power to control web standards if you use a browser based on theirs.

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
#17 · Quote Reply

Itโ€™s one thing to continue using the fascism pedophile app. Itโ€™s something else to leave and come back.

To come back by practically apologizing!

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altkey (he\him) lemmy.dbzer0.com altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-26
#18 · Quote Reply

I wonder if they'd be better off if Mozilla starts selling VPN, DNS, mail, drive and LLM services akin to Proton.

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
#19 · Quote Reply

Google funds fascist political campaigns and I don't think Mozilla does. Seems worse to me than using shitter. And it doesn't matter if you are using another chromium fork, Google is still getting more power to control web standards if you use a browser based on theirs.

Google funds fascist political campaigns

And Google funds Firefox, to the tune of basically their entire budget. They don't take individual donations.

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bridgeenjoyer sh.itjust.works bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-06
#20 · Quote Reply

Those at X don't care.

*most humans dont care. I'd say 90% have zero clue of the fediverse, and do not realize why big tech centralization is horrendous for humanity.

Tell me how many folks have converted to Lemmy or matrix or peertube from their corpo counterparts. Of my hundreds of fb friends, I have 2 that I had to basically twist their arm to use signal. 2. The rest go "oh haha idk what that is maybe I'll look at it but everyone is already on fb I can't leave".

Its a losing battle and I've basically stopped trying. People refuse to change and will give all their info and data away without a thought.

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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#21 · (edited) Quote Reply

Google funds fascist political campaigns And Google funds Firefox, to the tune of basically their entire budget. They don't take individual donations.

I literally donate to Mozilla every month, so...

Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

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volore scribe.disroot.org volore@scribe.disroot.org
Joined: 2026-03-25
#22 · (edited) Quote Reply

Itโ€™s one thing to continue using the fascism pedophile app. Itโ€™s something else to leave and come back.

"the internet is changing" like all of a sudden neonazi techbros and their platform where they make genAI child porn are cool and okay again, according to Mozilla. absolutely bonkers shit take

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
#23 · Quote Reply

I literally donate to Mozilla every month, so... Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

You can donate to Mozilla , but those donations will not be used for Firefox development (no developer salaries, etc). Firefox is developed by a for-profit that only takes money through sponsorship deals like the Google search partnership. Your donations are used for everything else, including tens of millions of dollars of AI venture capital grants for example.

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Optional lemmy.world homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#24 · Quote Reply

*most humans dont care. I'd say 90% have zero clue of the fediverse, and do not realize why big tech centralization is horrendous for humanity. Tell me how many folks have converted to Lemmy or matrix or peertube from their corpo counterparts. Of my hundreds of fb friends, I have 2 that I had to basically twist their arm to use signal. 2. The rest go "oh haha idk what that is maybe I'll look at...

Pretty much. We're out in our own little bubble here. Which is both good and bad.

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Optional lemmy.world homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#25 · Quote Reply

Didn't they install some facebook suckholes to be in charge fairly recently?

I forget.

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yeehaw lemmy.ca cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-09
#26 · Quote Reply

Why do people still use Xitter

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4am lemmy.zip 4am@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-23
#27 · Quote Reply

I wonder if they'd be better off if Mozilla starts selling VPN, DNS, mail, drive and LLM services akin to Proton.

Good news, we can answer that.

Among other things, they joined X again

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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#28 · Quote Reply

You can donate to Mozilla , but those donations will not be used for Firefox development (no developer salaries, etc). Firefox is developed by a for-profit that only takes money through sponsorship deals like the Google search partnership. Your donations are used for everything else, including tens of millions of dollars of AI venture capital grants for example.

Okay, well assuming that is true, I'm not entirely sure what to do with that information. I ask again,

Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

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belated_frog_pants beehaw.org belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-09
#29 · Quote Reply

God fuck them and stay off elons nazi bar website

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Fedizen lemmy.world Fedizen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#30 · Quote Reply

Man mozilla is so embarrassing these days.

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Solumbran lemmy.world Solumbran@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#31 · Quote Reply

*most humans dont care. I'd say 90% have zero clue of the fediverse, and do not realize why big tech centralization is horrendous for humanity. Tell me how many folks have converted to Lemmy or matrix or peertube from their corpo counterparts. Of my hundreds of fb friends, I have 2 that I had to basically twist their arm to use signal. 2. The rest go "oh haha idk what that is maybe I'll look at...

Basically, yes. That's why the issue is with lawmakers, and going to shitty platforms with the excuse of "it's to reach the people there" is like when "left" parties shift to the far right to try to reach their voters base.

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Carighan Maconar piefed.world Carighan@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-16
#32 · Quote Reply

To come back by practically apologizing!

Yeah if the only reason they came back were daily doodles of a firefox pissing on Trump or Musk that'd be fine, but they're not doing that!

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
#33 · Quote Reply

Okay, well assuming that is true, I'm not entirely sure what to do with that information. I ask again, Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

Heavens no. Use a fork, and probably don't donate to Mozilla unless you agree with how they're spending your donations (i.e. not Firefox).

I'd use Firefox over Chrome no question, but I'd use a decent fork of Chrome before Firefox.

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recurse sh.itjust.works recurse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-07
#34 · Quote Reply

Oh well. Uninstall and move on. 'Twas a good run.

Any recommendations for an open source alternative? This might be the final straw for me as wellโ€ฆ

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tisktisk piefed.social tisktisk@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-03-07
#35 · Quote Reply

Why are you bringing Hindus into this?

Why is everyone acting like they've never seen a ninja-star?!?!

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Omega piefed.blahaj.zone purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-07
#36 · Quote Reply

I guess Mozilla didn't like seeing Mullvad get all the attention for supporting fascists, they had to do something!

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InternetCitizen2 lemmy.world InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#37 · Quote Reply

Basically, yes. That's why the issue is with lawmakers, and going to shitty platforms with the excuse of "it's to reach the people there" is like when "left" parties shift to the far right to try to reach their voters base.

Sorry but your comment is rather silly. You want to see this change on a legislative level? Okay sure, so do I, that would be great. But you also don't want to reach out to people so that they care to make the change? Either because they culturally care or to write their reps. You should realize that those are connected and its why my fellow lemms don't get to make real change as they not pragmatic about results.

I understand why you and others here feel that way. You are not wrong, but you are also implicitly surrendering your cause without firing a shot.

The people that understand are already here. The people that need to hear this are on Reddit/Twitter. Granted many don't care. Just as many also don't know to care one way or the other. By not reaching out to where they could be they will never know and become your ally. Therefore you have surrendered your cause as no one knew they could join it.

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Ocean lemmy.dbzer0.com fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-01-21
#38 · Quote Reply

I guess Mozilla didn't like seeing Mullvad get all the attention for supporting fascists, they had to do something!

What did Mullvad do?

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skittle07crusher sh.itjust.works skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-03-03
#39 · Quote Reply

not even gonna read the other comments, because

WHAT THE FUCK FIREFOX/MOZILLA

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State" anarchist.nexus Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-12-23
#40 · Quote Reply

What did Mullvad do?

the mullvad ceo donated millions to a far-right Swiss party that supports views like remigration. and when I say millions, it's not an exaggeration. he was their biggest donor.

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Solumbran lemmy.world Solumbran@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#41 · Quote Reply

Sorry but your comment is rather silly. You want to see this change on a legislative level? Okay sure, so do I, that would be great. But you also don't want to reach out to people so that they care to make the change? Either because they culturally care or to write their reps. You should realize that those are connected and its why my fellow lemms don't get to make real change as they not pragm...

People have been screaming about these things for decades.

What was before coming from lack of awareness, is now caused by an increasingly wide gap between "sides" and it's becoming an ideological war.

The ones that are not convinced by now, are convinced by the opposite side and aren't going to switch. We need to stop thinking that we need to increase our numbers or whatever, and just act. Let's not fool ourselves, a handful of moronic nazis able to change the world for the worst, it doesn't take that many people to actually change stuff. It just requires stubbornness.

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Goodlucksil lemmy.dbzer0.com Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-08-15
#42 · Quote Reply

the mullvad ceo donated millions to a far-right Swiss party that supports views like remigration. and when I say millions, it's not an exaggeration. he was their biggest donor.

donated millions

Millions of SEK, which is around 600 thousand dollars. Which is still a lot because last year they had 20 thousand (dollars)

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D1re_W0lf piefed.social D1re_W0lf@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-27
#43 · Quote Reply

Deletes Firefox from laptop, phone and tablet and replaces with Vivaldi. Fire who? I barely new him.

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ooterness lemmy.world ooterness@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#44 · Quote Reply

What did Mullvad do?

One of their co-founders gave a huge donation to a far-right party in Sweden--72% of the party's donations for 2025.

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stravanasu lemmy.ca pglpm@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-05
#45 · Quote Reply

"Funny" how in many sites like that one, one can only "like" or "heart", but there's no possibility of "dislike". It's full Orwell's 1984 and Newspeak on those sites โ€“ and spreading everywhere really.

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chortle_tortle mander.xyz chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-04
#46 · Quote Reply

the mullvad ceo donated millions to a far-right Swiss party that supports views like remigration. and when I say millions, it's not an exaggeration. he was their biggest donor.

remigration

To those that might not recognize the term, ethnic cleansing.

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chortle_tortle mander.xyz chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-04
#47 · Quote Reply

Man mozilla is so embarrassing these days.

Did a reinstall recently and noticed you can no longer delete the FAANG search engines from the browser, now you can only toggle them off. Made all the worse by a fun little pop-up with the redesign saying "Same settings, new look".

So depressing watching them enshitify.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#48 · Quote Reply

Great, they finish ripping MV2 out of chrome and here's firefox ready to be whatever the fuck they want with impunity

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thepurplepope piefed.zip thepurplepope@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-10-16
#49 · Quote Reply

shame!

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Hal-5700X sh.itjust.works hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-09
#50 · Quote Reply

Why do people still use Xitter

It's the biggest social media site in the world.

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58008 lemmy.world 58008@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#51 · Quote Reply

The pally way they've been replying to obvious nazi accounts is so disturbing.

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