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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 147 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I thought they were just adding activitypub to some products / making their own accounts but

However, the company is aiming to tackle some of the obstacles that have prevented users from joining and participating in the fediverse so far, including the technical hurdles around onboarding, finding people to follow and discovering interesting content to discuss.

What Mozilla wants to accomplish, then, is to help reconfigure the Mastodon onboarding process so that when someone — including a publisher or creator — joins its instance (or the fediverse in general) they’re able to build their audience with more ease.

Now THAT would be cool. If the browser had a built in way to handle some of this stuff, it would be a lot simpler to deal with some of the issues. I'd love to learn more

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

This is literally the bottleneck of all of fediverse imo.

With ease of use integrated into the fediverse, half of social media could become irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (8 children)

My brain went "Firefox has what 7% market share? What's 50% of that?? Actually, that probably is 4x the 'Fediverse' user total right there"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I feel like if Firefox added features for the fediverse, they'd do it in a way that other browsers could implement it too.

With Facebook and Tumblr working on Fediverse stuff, it would be weird if Chrome didn't add the features too

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