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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2026 07:10:06 JST Evan Prodromou
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- VM (Vicky) Brasseur
@vmbrasseur https://mozilla.social/ 😢
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1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: assets.mozilla.social
  
  Mozilla.social
  
  The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!
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  VM (Vicky) Brasseur (vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2026 07:10:07 JST VM (Vicky) Brasseur
  
  Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.
  https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
  Here's mine.
  #OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
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  1. What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future? As a longtime and respected open source professional, I finally want to have a good answer when someone asks me, "What has Mozilla done for us lately?" I haven't had that answer for many a year. The perception of Mozilla in the greater open source community is that of a company that breaks its promises (where's Pocket?) and panders to big tech, unwilling or unable to take a strong principled stance lest it lose its grip on its purse strings. Mozilla has flailed, starting and ending what feels like more products/projects than Google. It needs to refocus on its mission and double-down on regaining the trust of the community. I do NOT want to see a focus on AI. At all. It's a red herring that's distracting from the mission, not an add-on to it. Furthermore, the ethics of AI (no matter its source) are questionable at best. Aside from IP and other concerns, even the most "open" AI still contributes greatly to degrading our environment. Anything beyond eschewing this tech trend feels antithetical to Mozilla's mission and brand.
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  Dinand Mentink (dinandmentink@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2026 12:33:03 JST Dinand Mentink
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  - VM (Vicky) Brasseur
  @vmbrasseur There you go:
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  1. Mozilla should know better than this mindless AI-hype-chasing, and I feel it once did. That's why we have Firefox, a once-stellar browser, now decent at best. Mozilla was once a champion for an open internet, now it is beholden to the purse strings of those that have captured it. AI is terrible for scores of reasons, and worse, it is antithetical to an open web. On the open web information is created and transparently shared. With LLM's and porngenerators (sorry, I mean gen-AI) information is captured and leased back — closed, expensive and untransparent, and oftentimes plain bad. Mozilla's current mission to be one of the big boys in AI is the pinnacle of Mozilla leaving it's roots as a champion for an open web. We, the users, contributors and ambassadors of firefox are sick and tired of AI. You know this, which is why this survey is so terribly skewed pro-AI. Please. I want to have a reason to recommend Firefox again. I want to have a reason to promote Mozilla again. So please, please, seven times please. For the love of all that is holy, open and free: Fuck — and I cannot stress this enough — AI.
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