If you’re thinking about switching away from Firefox, at least make sure you don’t put your trust in a company which is worse, because that would be fucking pointless.

“they had no other choice mozilla is insanely under paid”

HAHAHAHA

this is probably a dumb question, but, like, I don’t understand why there isn’t a good Firefox fork at this point ?

is it really that hard to fork Firefox and remove all of the monetization decisions made by mozilla over the past few years, while keeping the rest of the browser ?

like, I realize that if the open-source community is treating bad mozilla leadership like a problem we’ll have to deal with, it’s probably because there’s a reason why it’s difficult to just remove their bullshit from the browser and keep using the rest. but I’d like to understand what the reason is.

mozilla have just removed their "we will never sell your personal data" statement from their ToS

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847R65

uk people, sign and share

non uk people, share but don't sign

terfs, commit toaster in the bath

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

how long till we get federated barq

We're announcing some products tomorrow that many of you have been waiting a long time for!

Did you know that the hardware that hosts seafoam.space has worms inside of it

it was a seafoam.space user. it was a seafoam.space user. can one make it any more obvious

did any of the instances that have "$INSTANCE" support ever try using that shit in a FediBlock post

Recently, Google has pushed out two new system apps to many Android devices: Android System Safety Core and Android System Key Verifier. There has been a lot of outrage and misinformation about that, which has been blindly shared without bothering to check the truth or dig deeper. There is a great blog post by @SteffoSpieler and @finn@ice.finley.dev about that whole thing, which you should read: https://steffo.blog/outrage-warps-reality/

it happened
not a drill

<LWT mentions mastodon and pixelfed>

oh no, prepare for the signup horde

Totally forgot to publish an #introduction from here, so here goes!

I'm @kfh@chaos.social and I like messing with technology.

This Mastodon instance got spun up in reaction to @domi's crazy project of using an IPv6 reverse address as fedi domain, and me asking myself "can the same be done for v4?"

Well, it turns out that you can twist the fabric of the internet in a way that makes this cursed concoction actually work!

So here we are, in-addr.arpa fedi instance :D

Reminder: Just because someone is posting on social media a lot, visibly doing projects, and otherwise looks like they're living their best life

1) Does not mean they are ok - social media is often a distraction and an escape valve

2) Does not mean they are ignoring you - they may be overwhelmed and incapable of handling messages

PSA: CatCatNya~, as an instance, is currently involved in a potential legal case regarding Austrian StGB § 107c against the natural person hosting it.

As a precaution, assume the following can happen:

• The instance may disappear in the future
• The instance may change ownership in the future
• The natural person hosting the instance may be legally forced to hand over data of the instance, as evidence

This is an early warning.