Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future | TechCrunch
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Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    1 year ago

    This is literally the bottleneck of all of fediverse imo.

    With ease of use integrated into the fediverse, half of social media could become irrelevant.

    • intelati@programming.dev
      18·
      1 year ago

      My brain went “Firefox has what 7% market share? What’s 50% of that?? Actually, that probably is 4x the ‘Fediverse’ user total right there”

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
        17·
        1 year ago

        4.87% on North American Desktops, 6.16% worldwide, 10.77% in Europe, 17.43% in Germany. Not even showing up on mobile and tablet, here’s the numbers.

        World-wide usage of adblock is much higher, 42.7%, so if Google actually goes through with their plan Chrome is going to lose market share, massively.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        I feel like if Firefox added features for the fediverse, they’d do it in a way that other browsers could implement it too.

        With Facebook and Tumblr working on Fediverse stuff, it would be weird if Chrome didn’t add the features too

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
        82·
        1 year ago

        7%? Are you one of the people arguing for getting the CEO their bonuses or something?

        If you only count desktop browsers, then yes. If you count all browsers, they’re below 3% (somewhere between 2.6% and 2.9%). Even on w3schools, a primarily developer oriented website, Firefox is at 4.8% (still down 0.2% from the 5% in January).

        Based on market share numbers and their general lack of focus, Mozilla integrating with the Fediverse may very well be a bad omen predicting end of both the Fediverse and Firefox.

        • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
          10·
          1 year ago

          It does make sense. Most of the android users directly use google search bar and dont even bother to open a browser directly if its one shot query or not using multiple tabs.

          • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            3·
            1 year ago

            Three percent of all browsers is a fuckton of users, considering that includes mobile users who are going to be less likely to change their browser then desktop users. There is an estimated 6.92 billion smartphone users. Three percent of that is more users than there are people in the United States.