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Mozilla hates their core users. They think that things like this will attract "trendie" and "diverse" users, which is a futile endeavor. "Trendie" people are always jumping from trend to trend, so even if they switch, they will just switch away when the new trend comes along. "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could.

Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork.

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> Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork.

I hoped for quite a while that Servo was the beginning of something that would become the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox to Firefox's current bloated, Mozilla-(the browser)-like state. The layoffs mostly crushed that hope.

They’ve said before that the work that was done in Servo has already been incorporated into the shipping version of Firefox. It would have been better if they didn’t have to do layoffs, however the Servo project served its purpose.

It so appears Mozilla has decided to die on this hill, remember that they published the "We need more than deplatforming" bullshit last year while Firefox slowly bleeds to death.

> "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could.

At the risk of sounding ignorant, how the fuck can a browser, the most universal platform we have right now, cater to any specific minority group? I'd get it if you were talking about accessibility, but what does the browser have to do with your race or sexuality?

It's called woke-ism. The new trend of corporate dumbing-down feel-good marketingspeak.

I think is a relevant parallel because those ideologies currently tell you to be yourself, but then praise looks over values and goals

Colorways and current Mozilla is the same, appearances over content

Reminds me of Marvels New Avengers. To a select group of people it sounds like the best idea ever.

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