Hi folks and mods of the firefox community!

I think it’s hight time to address the controversies around mozilla and either debunk them or clarify that the sub is about the browser and distancing itself from the company, ideally with a pinned post or something.

My reason is that stuff about firefox maker mozilla starts popping up which takes away from the browser and it’s core ideas. For example ceo getting insane payraises while dumping employees. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

I just think a community like this should give guidance on how to deal with this in a constructive manner.

Have a good one folks.

  • Mane25@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    I think it gets boring, but I think the best response is to downvote it and move on. Pinning it draws attention to it.

      • Mane25@feddit.uk
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        10 months ago

        It's the same concerns that get repeated over and over again, given how incredibly important Mozilla is and the good they do, giving undue weight to its flaws is unhelpful.

        • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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          10 months ago

          Ok, so do you know how the corpos react to actual concerns which they can’t bury under money? They adress them in writing and forever refer to it.

          I don’t know why it is so hard for everyone to get that stuff doesn’t go away if you ignore it. It’s so easy to write „Mozilla ceo has done some questionable things but we as a community think that the brwoser is important regardless…“

          • Mane25@feddit.uk
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            10 months ago

            Not to say you can't mention them, just avoid undue weight. Back on Reddit r/firefox turned in to a massive anti-Mozilla circlejerk which is the last thing we need when it's so important to encourage people to use Firefox.

            • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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              10 months ago

              Then go ahead and be there first. A formal q&a why these allegations exist, how true or untrue they are and why they are not important to firefox as a browser. It will also help people defend against this in public and will actually bring more people to firefox. What do you think scientology does? You think they don’t have a q&a for cruise stalking his ex wives and people suddenly dying when leaving the fold?

              • Mane25@feddit.uk
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                10 months ago

                I think a q&a is overkill, Mozilla isn't controversial in the general public consciousness.

                • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  10 months ago

                  Ok, opinion noted. I agree that mozilla is not controversial in the eye of the public but I think that is why a q&a is a good idea. Other companies, products, etc also host q&as which are not considered controversial.

                  Moreover, my goal is to arm the average superuser (or even average user who feels so inclined) with useful answers to the most prevalent criticism. This is done best by keeping it short and simple. Some convoluted thread will not help there.