Post #3996497

2026-07-21 17:16 UTC

@hermannus@stegodon.nl simply to reach more users. This account is also on X, which… I have mixed feelings about, but I've had good interactions with developers on there, and as much as I hate what happened to Twitter, that isn't the fault of the people on there who are asking for help with Firefox web platform features, and I like helping people.

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@hermannus@stegodon.nl 2026-07-21 17:28

@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social you are what you enable. That's my opinion.

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@c@fedi.cpf.sh 2026-07-21 22:20

@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @hermannus@stegodon.nl hi - understand your logic here, and I get the impulse to try to reach as many people as possible, especially from a comms/marketing perspective. I also really appreciate the fact that whoever's on the other end of this account is talking through it like a human being! I think it's fair to challenge though the idea of "simply to reach more users", because that implies that there are no lines that Mozilla wouldn't cross to achieve that; can we expect to see an official Firefox account on Truth Social, or Parler, or Gab? I'd assume (and hope!) not, but those would also reach users - though clearly with diminishing rewards, but if they were to reach a critical mass, would that line be crossed? What Mozilla has essentially done is made a decision that the harms done by Mozilla's patronage of a platform that is credibly accused of systematic racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, misinformation, and proliferation of CSAM are outweighed by the users it reaches through it. That's not a neutral decision; it sends a message that those users are more strategically important to Mozilla than those impacted by the real-world harms on X. I hope you can understand why so many are saddened and upset to see it happen, and I hope there is internal pushback on this too.

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