cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The kind of people you find on Mastodon following Firefox news are not the same as the average person. They are a bubble.

    A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.

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      1 month ago

      A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.

      …people or dollars? ‘Cos i don’t think “hundreds of millions” of people are chippin’ in, it’s Google that’s financing “hundreds of millions” of dollars…

      But yeah, that target audience is a bubble, normies don’t care.

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        1 month ago

        Dollars.

        Google is giving hundreds of millions because they fear regulators getting involved.

        A handful of people who follow Mozilla on Mastodon saying they’re willing to pay up to a meagre $5 per year won’t do anything.