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  • Mozilla is set up as a non-profit with a for profit company as a subsidiary. The corporate Mozilla handles working on Firefox, mostly using money from Google for setting it as the default search engine. Because of that separation I don’t think they can easily mix those two piles of money together.

    There’s this section from their FAQ:

    Don’t Mozilla products, like Firefox, earn income?

    Firefox is maintained by the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. While Firefox does produce revenue — chiefly through search partnerships — this earned income is largely reinvested back into the Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation’s education and advocacy efforts, which span several continents and reach millions of people, are supported by philanthropic donations.













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    1 year ago

    One correction/clarification and some tips:

    For example, say you’re in lemmy.ml and you realized that stable_diffusion is in lemmy.dbzer0.com. To access it, simply add lemmy.dbzer0.com at the end of the url. So

    https://lemmy.ml/c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    For now this seems only work if the community has already been federated. The first subscriber needs to use the search with either the !stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com format or the community’s url. Make sure you have “all” selected so that it’s not just searching locally. Then the search results usually show “No results” even if it’s syncing in the background. After it’s been federated it’ll show up in searches, in the communities list, and will work with those /c/ style links. The UI for federating new communities definitely needs a bunch of work.


    To find and subscribe to communities go to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities, then selecting ‘All’ to look through any that are already federated. If you want to find more, https://browse.feddit.de/ has a mostly complete list of communities. Just watch out though, because it includes instances that are blocked from most sites for obvious reasons.


    A few instances I’ve found centered around various topics:

    https://slrpnk.net - Solarpunk

    https://mander.xyz - Science

    https://programming.dev - Programming

    https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech - Pop Music

    https://pathfinder.social - Pathfinder/Starfinder TTRPGs

    https://sub.wetshaving.social - Wet Shaving

    https://pawb.social - Furry

    https://lemmy.studio - Music

    There’s more for other topics, but a lot of them don’t have any moderation policies listed so I’m not going to recommend them yet. There’s also a bunch of general purpose instances, as well as location based ones.


    One thing that a lot of people find confusing is how there can be multiple communities with the same name, just hosted on different sites. In those cases it’s not a single community viewed in two places. For example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org are two separate communities that both exist, and you can subscribe to either or both. Each will have different rules, mods, posts and comments. The full name of a community includes the domain, sort of like an email address.


    I’d also recommend people change their default settings to ‘Subscribed’ so it’s not just showing the posts hosted here. You might also want to set sorting to ‘Hot’, since ‘Active’ tends to show the same threads for days at a time as long as people keep posting in them.


    Right now the federation with kbin.social seems to be broken since they added cloudflare protection. We probably need to wait for them to remove that before communities there can be federated.