Dec 21, 2022 12:30:00

Mozilla declares 'to start testing healthy SNS in early 2023', testing Mastodon first

After the Twitter acquisition drama by Mr. Elon Mask, on Twitter,

accounts of conspiracy theorists and discriminators have been revived one after another, and a large number of journalists who seem to be Mr. Mask's intentions have been frozen.It is a very unstable state. continues. Meanwhile, Mozilla, a non-profit organization known for the development of the web browser `` Firefox '' and the email software `` Thunderbird '', announced that it is conducting research and development to provide a `` healthy alternative to SNS ''. At the time of writing the article, we are working on Mastodon.

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

Mastodon is an SNS developed with open source, and is equipped with functions equivalent to 'tweet', 'like' and 'retweet' on Twitter. A major feature of Mastodon is that individuals and organizations can establish 'instances' for their own purposes and operate them as their own SNS. Instances are like ``mini Twitter'', and there are countless instances on the Internet with their own rules such as ``content sharing for adults'' and ``game stories only''.

Many of the instances are operated by companies and organizations.For example, in Japan, pixiv, an illustration posting service, established an instance ' Pawoo ' operated by The Social Coop Limited from December 21, 2022. It is gaining popularity.

Services like Mastodon are called 'decentralized SNS' or 'Fediverse', and apart from Mastodon, decentralized SNS such as ' Matrix ' and ' Pixelfed ' are being developed as open sources. “We aim to contribute to the sustainable growth of the SNS space, which thrives on its own rules, independent of technology companies motivated by profit and control,” Mozilla said. It is a promising mechanism to protect humanity from centralized management by a single entity, ”he announced that he would establish an instance on a distributed SNS in early 2023.

At the time of writing, Mozilla has started testing with Mastodon. Also, Mozilla said, ``We believe that the potential of distributed SNS is greater than Mastodon alone. It also shows its willingness to provide research support for type SNS.

Regarding browser developers and decentralized SNS, Vivaldi has established a Mastodon instance “Vivaldi Social” in November 2022.

Vivaldi Social - Mastodon instance 'Vivaldi Social' | Vivaldi Browser
https://vivaldi.com/ja/blog/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/