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this week the chat has all been “Mozilla are going in the wrong direction , They’re selling out, they using AI, they’re hiring ad experts”. - all over xitter all over lemmy.
Now someone dug up this old story about teixeira Suing them, because he claims they demoted him because of cancer. A
With the scarcity of facts available at this stage , one thing we know is that both AI and advertising were championed by…. Texeira - ex of Microsoft, twitter and Facebook.
So, an alternate but equally plausible narrative, might be “Teixeira strayed to far into commercialisation, received a shitty performance review, and got moved out of his role”
Yeah especially if you look on reddit, it's a handful of accounts with a very concerted effort.
Don't get me wrong it's shitty behaviour, but it's also fairly obviously some are getting paid to suddenly do this.
Which accounts do you believe are ~~witches~~ paid shills?
Shill accusations are fun, because they can't be disproven, and their weight is informed solely by the social capital of the person making the accusations.
Okay, your reply is kind of ironic because, in your defense of Mozilla, you've opened up new ways you find Mozilla to be bad. For example, "“Mozilla are going in the wrong direction , They’re selling out, they using AI, they’re hiring ad experts”
Either you believe Mozilla venturing into AI and ads are bad, or it's good... but exposing it hurts Mozilla. Which?
Mozilla fired Teixeira a couple days ago. That's not old.
I know you're trying to get in a gotcha here, but according to Mozilla's own testimony:
"[Teixeira] failed to adequately address the considerable concerns and feedback the Board and CEO raised regarding product strategy, including actively resisting requests that he engage in generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”)"