sigh

          • @zante@lemmy.wtf
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            2910 months ago

            this week the chat has all been “Mozilla are going in the wrong direction , They’re selling out, they using AI, they’re hiring ad experts”. - all over xitter all over lemmy.

            Now someone dug up this old story about teixeira Suing them, because he claims they demoted him because of cancer. A

            With the scarcity of facts available at this stage , one thing we know is that both AI and advertising were championed by…. Texeira - ex of Microsoft, twitter and Facebook.

            So, an alternate but equally plausible narrative, might be “Teixeira strayed to far into commercialisation, received a shitty performance review, and got moved out of his role”

            • Carighan Maconar
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              1010 months ago

              Yeah especially if you look on reddit, it’s a handful of accounts with a very concerted effort.

              Don’t get me wrong it’s shitty behaviour, but it’s also fairly obviously some are getting paid to suddenly do this.

    • @romp_2_door@lemmy.world
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      1110 months ago

      holy shit you donated money to these wackos?

      with so many OOS projects out there in need of funding, so many devs roughing it up, you donate to the advertising company Mozilla that has zero cash needs, they give million dollar bonuses to their executives every year.

      Literally giving money to wacko rich executives

    • Possibly linux
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      810 months ago

      Why would you donate to a company? I assume you are talking about the non profit