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A comment on Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:33AM (#23312413)
Mozilla chose Matrix, not Slack or Discord.
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Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator by catalogia on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:42AM (#23312525)
On the Mozilla branded website that this discussion is about: "Join us on Slack"
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Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:50AM (#23312653)
I missed that! That is very strange, given their very public move to Matrix.
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Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator by freeopinion on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:17PM (#23317567)
From any Matrix client try searching for Rust.

It pops right up for me with #/room/#rust:matrix.org at the top of the list.

Now try searching for Firefox.

There's a Russian Firefox community on Page 2 of the search results. There are beta and nightly groups on page 3. There's various other noise. But the maintainers have hidden the real Matrix room for Firefox so well, it doesn't even seem to be in the search index.

The choice was public. The move has not been public at all.

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