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@calispera@babka.social
Mozilla is a very strange entity and the Mozilla Corporation is tasked to make money. The way it does that has changed over time but largely through deals- for example by having Google as the default search engine, Mozilla is paid millions of dollars. By making deals with VPN providers and others, it makes other money.
We know that over time Firefox has gotten worse and worse for users.
We don't know why.
It will be interesting to understand what happened in depth so we can learn lessons from it.
@serge@babka.social @calispera@babka.social I've pondered this for a while. It's not hard to assume that the financial cart will start to pull the FOSS horse. But maybe there's a second strand of enshittification caused by focus-group based design. Though that said, FOSS also sometimes suffers the opposite way too- dev chosen features that are based around their own preferences and interests, but may not match user needs.
@terryb @serge
Why do you think that focus-group based design is a venue for enshitification ?
Doesn't that sound good ?
@calispera
I won't speak for @terryb but there's are two polarities. On one hand you have a singular vision, and on the other, a group.
There's an expression in English "A camel is a horse designed by committee".
There's an idea that a thing made purely by focus groups will have no identity and no spirit.
Of course sometimes hearing the views of others will help inform and make a better work, but if it's not done thoughtfully then you get "mush".
Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci had a focus group. We'd have paintings of cats. :)
@serge@babka.social @calispera@babka.social And also, a focus group- unlike a committee - doesn't even get to direct the discussion or make a final decision. Someone (or another group) listens and then decides what they really meant was......
@serge@babka.social @calispera@babka.social @terryb@babka.social I mean that's a good description of the pros and cons of singular (individual) vision versus groups. But I'm not sure you are going to get a lot of traction on this network running against the cat paintings. (Speaking of which, I wonder if @dailymedievalcats@troet.cafe is planning on cycling through their collection again. As I understand it, they've posted each of the paintings in their database once).