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dannycolin

@dannycolin@floss.social

#Firefox Contributor | All things Containers
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This is my personal account, opinions my own.

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jrconlin, to random
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I can never remember if it's

・workforce (to check my vacation balance)
・workday (for filing PTO requests)
・culture amp (for filling out my goals)
・or confluence (for following the dashboards for my goals)

So, I inevitably type in some random system that we used five years ago and abandoned seven quarters later.

dannycolin,
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@jrconlin File a bug on bugzilla 🙃

Gargron, to random
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The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

dannycolin,
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@Gargron Unless Threads server is blocked on the instance you're on. I get people not wanting to federate with Threads server-wide but users should be able to follow whoever they want on their personal timeline especially gov accounts...

dannycolin,
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@kkeller @Gargron That's easier said than done especially in a situation like Threads.

a) This can lead to more centralization if too many people have to migrate to a few instances willing to give them the ability to follow people on Threads.

b) Also, there's other advantages to use an instance close to my interest e.g Open Source and contribute to keep this smaller instances alive to avoid a)

So I don't think migrating is a great long term solution to the problem of who someone can follow.

jrconlin, to random
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Having worked with browsers for a very long time, I'm just going to point out that making a modern browser is exceptionally difficult. There are LOTS of hidden costs and gotchas ranging from CVE protections, to back-end service supports, to even just getting anyone to work on it at all.

That's one of the big reasons a lot of folk just glommed onto WebKit. Someone else is footing that particular bill.

It's not impossible, but it ain't easy.

Everything looks small from a distance.

dannycolin,
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@jrconlin I'm really grateful that there's a lot of great people still working at Mozilla but I also fell it's harder to do #3 (especially getting new blood) when there are no resources to foster a community for your contributors.

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