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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

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

Honestly can't tell if it's sarcasm without an /s

That's how it usually works for other money you got while committing a crime. You lose all of it

When you're not a company anyways

Trying to fix the problem without a proper bug report

They might know it's bad but not fully understand the potential harms. I made another comment on it

The other comment about how this has been happening for a long time (with low tech methods) is true, and it's also true that we can't stop this completely. We can still respond to it:

An immediate and easy focus would be on what they do with the images. Sharing them around is still harassment / bullying and it should be dealt with in the same way as it currently is.

There's also an education aspect to it. In the past, those images (magazines, photocopies, photoshop) would be limited in who sees them. The kids now are likely using free online tools that aren't private or secure, and those images could stick around forever. So it could be good to highlight that

• Your friends and classmates may see them, and it may harm their lives. The images will likely stick around. Facial recognition algorithms are also improving, so it's a legitimate concern that an image stored on a random site somewhere will be tied back to them.
• The images can be traced back to the creator and the creator can face repercussions for it (for those without empathy, this might be the better selling point

That's not what they asked though, they're already using Firefox and they don't intend to drop it

this

^(example of the types of comments that don't really contribute anything)

I tried installing it but got a security warning from Windows. I assume it's a false positive 'make sure you know what you're doing' situation, but I'd still like to know more about what's happening

I think I once installed an extension to filter out all pinterest content from searches. While I haven't switched to Kagi yet, I loved how they collect and collapse all the listicles together.

One thing I don't really understand are the websites that seem to have my exact search query word for word, but don't actually have any content when I click on them. I don't understand how that works, and they're annoying to deal with. It's usually when there aren't any results for what I'm looking for

I disagree on the COVID point somewhat

We DID actually coordinate for a bit, but I think once it was clear that we were getting a handle on things the selfishness came back. A large part of that was a few populist world leaders taking advantage of the situation for political gain.

Hoping we can do even better next time