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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.