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@verita84@shit.poster.place No, it's really not over for the independent web.

It's over for Mozilla, though.

The reason the web is closed in the first place is because groups and companies like Mozilla are constantly striving for interoperability with corporate, mainstream platforms.

It's okay to be different. It's okay to lack features. It's okay to be gopher or gemini. It's A-ok to make your web site literally an index.txt file and make your visitors copy-paste URLs into their address bar.

Fancy, flashy, and full of advertisements isn't an "open web." It's a prison for rats. And the main way I have seen Mozilla combat this is by... remaining compatible with the mega-cancerous developments Google has been pushing into the Internet.

A set of standards and specifications that are intrinsically anti-consumer is one we should reject, rather than emulate. Mozilla has failed on that front.