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.
I thought they were just adding activitypub to some products / making their own accounts but
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
It makes a lot of sense to me to just have minimum standards for Fediverse instances, and then anyone who wants to host users can be a default instance for a period of time and just rotate through them Round Robin-style so nobody gets slammed with too many new users at once.
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.
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”
4.87% on North American Desktops, 6.16% worldwide, 10.77% in Europe, 17.43% in Germany. Not even showing up on mobile and tablet, here’s the numbers.
World-wide usage of adblock is much higher, 42.7%, so if Google actually goes through with their plan Chrome is going to lose market share, massively.
7%? Are you one of the people arguing for getting the CEO their bonuses or something?
If you only count desktop browsers, then yes. If you count all browsers, they’re below 3% (somewhere between 2.6% and 2.9%). Even on w3schools, a primarily developer oriented website, Firefox is at 4.8% (still down 0.2% from the 5% in January).
Based on market share numbers and their general lack of focus, Mozilla integrating with the Fediverse may very well be a bad omen predicting end of both the Fediverse and Firefox.
I remember the good old days when FF almost hit 30%.
It does make sense. Most of the android users directly use google search bar and dont even bother to open a browser directly if its one shot query or not using multiple tabs.
7 was a stand in for a single digit numbet… didn’t realize it was that low. Yikes
Three percent of all browsers is a fuckton of users, considering that includes mobile users who are going to be less likely to change their browser then desktop users. There is an estimated 6.92 billion smartphone users. Three percent of that is more users than there are people in the United States.