There was a point where Yahoo paid to be the default in America, Google came back at the next opportunity and doubled (IIRC) their offer.

If Google pulled out, Bing would lowball Mozilla. Yandex are untouchable given that they’re Russian and so there’s not much left.

But that’s all besides the point, removing one dependency to replace it with another doesn’t make sense, people have been clamouring for Mozilla to become self sustainable and they’re attempting to do that. The fact that people want some crazy utopia where Mozilla just replace Google’s money with donations is the problem. Though, I personally think that we as users, should be lobbying our governments and advocating for more investment in open source alternatives such as Mozilla.

A bit disingenuous to call explaining what they’re doing as doubling down.

It’s adding centralisation where there’s no need for any. In the same way that BlueSky cosplays as decentralized, this is what this effectively tries to move towards. In that whoever runs the relays/indexers is in control.

Of course mastodon wanna power grab

Better how? There’s no right or wrong answer, I had both.

I third Droidify

Has there been any previous apps we need to install and uninstall?

I hear you, but it features Mastodon very prominently and Mastodon aren’t exactly reputable for supporting anything. Going as far as to implement things in a manner that breaks compatibility with other Fediverse services.

Ongoing? I can’t in good conscience say that. But I hope we’ll see Sync for Lemmy become as feature complete as Sync for Reddit was.

It’s clearly using iOS design though

The absence of any Lemmy mention seems weird to me.

Seems to be an iOS app from the screenshots on the Play Store.

It’s shocking how many people just outright ignore UX.

So what’s the replacement?

Off-topic: Are you the huginn developer? 🤩

I was talking about the server costs. For less than 300 users, the cost isn’t exorbitant.

Less than €100 a month

Different CEOs will have different visions. The old CEO believed more in the value of social and the new one is more pragmatic and wants to focus on deliverable things with tangible returns like Firefox. It’s sad though as I think killing Mozilla.social is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.

Should we be worried about the future of IPTV or is it fine?