@flyingsaceur oh no
Beirut pager explosions
Holy shit, what kind of vulnerability makes exploding pagers possible?
@alienghic A lot of folks are poop tootin' on the mastodons
@mttaggart I've got a purple one carefully stashed away in my go-bag for the apocalypse
@requiem what if we have both? 😅
@kissane I would say there are nerds inside Mozilla who are baffled by the whole thing, too
But, that funding thing turns out to be a real lynchpin and a dilemma all at the same time
Personally, though, I think Mozilla should have only opened that Mastodon server to employees and contributors for the first year or two. But, there were Big Ideas afoot and they were kind of exciting for awhile
(I feel like "there were Big Ideas afoot and they were kind of exciting for awhile" describes a great many things in Mozilla's history)
@fuzzychef haha yes
@miah @kissane Well, there's kind of an exchange of folks between all the tech companies. Some ex-Firefox folks went to work on Chrome at various points, I think some went to Apple for Safari, and some came from those teams to Mozilla. Some went to Facebook because they saw opportunities for impact. Folks go all over the place
@socketwench Hope you didn't have plans for that chair
Sometimes I wonder what Mozilla would look like if it were more like what lots of folks expect it should be like? Would it be feasible & funded?
Why hasn't anyone else forked Firefox and successfully run off with it?
I honestly don't know, I have little proven aptitude for running an organization or attracting money. The only thing I do know is that complication & compromise seem inevitable and everything's harder than it looks.
@bhearsum @bob Also I think "reasonably successful" isn't good enough.
A fork needs to be unreasonably successful - to the point that user adoption takes off, funding flows in, and maybe even that patches flow back upstream. Firefox did that to Mozilla Application Suite itself, back in the day. Chrome kinda did that to Safari
@jrconlin Yeah, I was kind of surprised when the server opened up. Plenty of open servers out there, could have used one aimed at employees and contributors and Moz projects
@kianryan I see no problem, forge ahead!