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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7456748

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.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At least as Mozilla exists now, I think it would be much harder for it to become "enshitified".

Preface: IANAL, just going off my best understanding.

The Mozilla Corporation is actually wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit. Profits that the corporation generates are the property of the Foundation, which falls under all the usual restrictions for spending and reporting that 501.c.3 orgs have. So at least as they exist now, Mozilla's profits cannot be used to enrich executives or investors, which is the driving motivation behind the enshitification cycle.

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