We used to support social mobility

When? Under slavery? Under Jim Crow? Under neoliberalism/Reagan?

and home ownership

Maybe to get settlers to move west for manifest destiny.

It is extremely simple and easy to change your search engine and disable telemetry in Firefox. I would agree if Mozilla showed any favoritism towards Google, but they don’t. Maintaining and developing an entirely independent browser is not cheap.

I really hope you’re not about to suggest Brave as an alternative when 100% of their funds come from a dying crypto scam, is for-profit, and is owned by a far-right, anti-gay reactionary. Not to mention that Brave’s browser is entirely reliant on Chromium code from Google.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

The US’s actions against Cuba are inhumane, illegal, and immoral. President Biden should follow Obama’s footsteps and normalize relations with Cuba.

End the blockade. Remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Close Guantánamo Bay.

¡Cuba sí, bloqueo no!

1. The very little, basic telemetry Firefox collects can be easily disabled^[1].
2. What alternative do you suggest to Mozilla? Reject the $500M and blowup everything they’ve worked so hard for decades to build? I feel like users having to click, at most, a whole 5 times to change their search engine (if they want) isn’t that big of a sacrifice to have a major privacy-oriented, non-profit player in the tech sphere.

What in the world would an “uncensored” model even imply? And give me a break, private platforms choosing to not platform something/someone isn’t “censorship”, you don’t have a right to another’s platform. Mozilla has always been a principled organization and they have never pretended to be apathetic fence-sitters.

I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn’t really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i’m willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven’t really needed to.

However, this definitely isn’t the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don’t see on Lemmy, that’s totally fine (though i hope they’re using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.

Growth isn’t a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.

Feels weird for them to frame this as if the protest has definitively finished and Reddit won. Reddit is bleeding users, many of whom will probably never return.

Google made $7 billion from YouTube in 2021^[1], might I remind you by running ads on other peoples’s content. Now of course Google does provide the platform for that content, but the point still remains.

Users and content creators are what make YouTube, not the other way around. Companies like Google need to careful not to let their pursuit of profit upset the good thing they have going for them.