"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.
If they’re user funded, their incentives are fundamentally different from Google’s. It makes no sense to enshittify like Google does. It’s a different choice, even if it’s not the choice you wanted.
I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.
yes but this takes time.
fuck google in tge meantime.
Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.
yeah, might seem good to have yet another choice, but it’s an illusion
If they’re user funded, their incentives are fundamentally different from Google’s. It makes no sense to enshittify like Google does. It’s a different choice, even if it’s not the choice you wanted.
different, yes. but by how much and will it be different in ways that truly matter