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Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am shocked. Shocked! /s

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I kinda like the idea but I also kinda hate it.

I really wish PWAs worked properly cross-platform instead. :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SSB was killed after it sat behind an about:config flag, then their telemetry (that most power users disable) reported folks weren’t using. But what average users would be using a setting they would need to poke around to find. It’s a real shame too since I want to say it was PeppermintOS that was largely built around PWAs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sounds dumb. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty standard for Mozilla logic if you have watched the features cut over the years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

totally agree, but also you can do more with an electron-like app - elevated privileges, less sandbox, etc because the user expects such things from an installed “native” app