Mastodon Server hosted by Mozilla

[LatinCanuck]

Mozilla is the company we trust when it comes to online privacy, security, and the Open Web. Having a web service like Mastodon Social under the Mozilla umbrella will guarantee more freedom of expression on the Open Web.

I personally believe that it should be part of Mozilla's mission to support and protect Federated Open Source Services, that are not controlled by a corporation.

In fact, Mozilla already supports one of those federated services.

• https://chat.mozilla.org   Mozilla Chat is based on a Federated Web Service called Matrix.org.

My idea is to create a web portal called Social.Mozilla.org where users could sign in with their Mozilla Account and enjoy a Twitter-like social experience powered by Mastodon's code.

The source-code of Mastodon is accessible on Github, and there are plenty of guides about how to install it and maintain it.

• https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

[ADGrimes]

Great idea and another way to get the Firefox/Mozilla brand out there

[Jon]

Hey all,

Here with an exciting update…

Your idea has been upgraded to a 'Trending idea.' This means it’s now one step closer to reaching our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey.

Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😀

-The Community Team

[touwer]

Would be smart to surf on the Mastodon wave

[tripleo]

I agree. Mastodon is great.

Maybe there should be one for "official" Mozilla stuff and one just as an alternative to Twitter?

Either way, sign me up when it's ready.

[Szkodnix]

I'd definitely would like to see it happen 😊

[o4kly]

I would also like to vote for it

[charlesroper]

This is exactly the sort of thing Mozilla should be all over. Catch the wave of migrations. Make is easy for people to choose a server and join Mastodon / the Fediverse. What a great story it would be for the open web and a boost for Mozilla if people could Firefox and sign in to Mastodon using their Mozilla account. I already use the Mastodon PWA using the FirefoxPWA extension and it works great.

Loads of community folk have already joined (many via the https://front-end.social/about instance), but Mozilla is still strangely absent.

[Pedro]

And here it is 😊  https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

[Jon]

@Pedro 🙌 🙌 🙌!

[Jon]

Hey all,

Here with some exciting news...

This is 'In development' — check out this blog post to learn more about our plans.

Please feel free to keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😁

-The Community Team