Saw this toot today too. Only now realized it’s from 10 months ago
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I always forget they’re called toots. “Just tooting into the wind” sounds so cute. Significantly better than “lighting up a cross for no one.”
I like it because in some places it’s a common euphemism for fart that’s only used unironically by young children, so every time I hear it the twelve-year-old in me gets another cameo.
To be fair, Mozilla has done quite some stupid shit in the last decade or so. Remember when they killed all addons with version 57?
I have been mad at Mozilla since they released v29 and ruined the UI 15 years ago
Mozilla has been kinda stupid since the browser was also called Mozilla.
Does mastadon legitimately believe that the word toot, in regards to its posts, is mass marketable?
Holy shit thats stupid.
yeah i just pissed it out, ive got 3 million views on my piss.
Please point me to the piss themed social media. I’ve got lots of piss for other people to piss on.
Point me to the fart themed social media
How is it any more stupid than a tweet? That was pretty mass marketable, I would say.
Because tweet never had any negative connotations before Twitter took it on. It's the sound a bird makes. Toot is slang for farting which doesn't have the greatest associations. It's also like skeet for blue sky. I get why the owners wouldn't want a word that has a whole and common on their platform community that knows that word as slang for ejaculation.
I'm four years old and I think it's funny. Also, "skeet" as slang for "blue sky"? I love it, you're a visionary, how do we make this happen?
All of that nonsense is hilarious. Toot and skeet sound absolutely ridiculous. At least it’s amusing seeing people trying to make fetch happen.
Yeah, I do think it needs to be changed, though I don't know to what. I don't personally mind it too much, but I want Mastodon to succeed, and I just can't picture legitimately telling people in a serious conversation about a toot I just tooted.
Loved Waterfox's response. Downloaded it and set it as default browser. Absolutely do not want AI, just give me a good browser.
Going to give this a try, thanks.
Waterfox is not a good alternative. There was a whole thing a while back about privacy and the developer explicitly stated that he does not care about such things.
Can you provide a link to back up your claim?
Dick-hammering is the new enshittification
"it's like enshittification but also hammers your dick!"
I’e been out of the loop, what happened?
AI, wouldn’t you believe it? Mozilla’s drinking the kool-ade.
mozilla saying they want shovel more and more AI as part of thier future development.
New CEO is a AI shill.
Mozilla shoving AI into Firefox.
Oh no. I’d rather take a hammer to the dick.
For a slightly less dramatic description: the person who's been in charge of Firefox is now the CEO of Mozilla. In an interview they detailed their vision which includes trying to get money in more ways than just making Google the default search engine, all of which involve growing the user base. He said that ignoring changes in technology doesn't benefit users or the Internet, and alluded to some previously announced features that are in progress for Firefox, including on device AI tools for things like alttext generation and translation, and upcoming features like an AI browsing window which has more integration with an AI including ones that aren't on the device depending on what the user selects.
He reiterated that user control of data and privacy remains their biggest selling point, so that has to remain the focus of whatever path they take.
They need to be more like steam: sit back and let everyone else fuck up.
And Brother printers.
2.7% market share.
As a comparison number, Linux's market share is around 4.7% right now.
Which browsers are used by linux users if not firefox or one of its forks? Even on windows firefox was always the first thing i installed.
There is Chrome and many open source variants along with others.
Many browsers have a Linux version (even Edge). IE only works under Wine though. And I think this Perplexity thing has no Linux version.
Most distros default to FF though, yeah.
Chromium probably.
Should've known from the get go, they called themselves fox and we let them sly bastard deceived us.
"Microsoft Edge. You will never be satisfied, guaranteed."
"Google Chrome. Only the thinnest veneer of quality."
"Ice Weasel. Love is the everchanging spectrum of a lie."
"Oh shit, I'm hammering my own dick, it hurts so bad oh my God the pain!"