So clearly it's not meant for you.

The old internet is dead and never coming back

It's never coming back because it never went anywhere. Fedi is cool but it's very firmly modern web2. The older ways of webrings, forums, and personal websites, are still as present as ever. I don't know if there are more or fewer of these, but I would guess more than ever before. Certainly more than you could ever consume in 10 lifetimes.

People come across a dead forum and think we didn't have dead or slow forums back in 200X. That's just normal for small, decentralised communities that aren't all stuffed into the same noisy domain.

Call me cynical, but the corpos have a vested interest to keep the Fediverse around - as a fig leaf to point to when people complain about the mall-ification of the internet and the big platforms' control of what speech is allowed on the internet. Mind, that does not mean they want it to thrive or easily accessible...

There are some alternatives to internet like Yggdrasil that is smaller there is not corps...

two-faced mozilla is trying very much to chase the newest trends and play the both sides, showing off whichever fits them at the moment. now these chatbots are creepy and no one wants them but at the same they have to add them to firefox because they're the future and everyone wants them. just like all that times they talked about how personalized ads are bad and then added a preselected toggle to send performance data to advertisers. or when they talk about giving users more power and choice and then implement widevine's cdm.

they want a userbase but also want the money to keep flowing, so they'll tell the users what they want to hear and then implement the newest fad to keep in good terms with the big tech.

There's a switch, it's that simple.

I'm willing to bet my ass that if they didn't offered AI at all, half of the community would complain they're missing the boat or something.

The world is currently rule by a bunch of pedo-oligarchs, can't we just stop complaining about the smallest things and appreciate the fact that we still have a strong alternative to chromium and Google browser? Mozilla isn't perfect but it isn't the bad guy.

Kind of have to agree with this. I'm still using Firefox, but I've very seriously considered changing. Because it's just managing to piss me off more and more all the time.

Just as an example, I have two websites that I visit on a fairly frequent basis that Firefox absolutely loves to go to the previous page when I click the next page button over and over and over again. And it's like, okay, you are getting really, really annoying now.

It's bad enough that I'm just like, has Blink won the web. But there is WebKit, and of course there's Ladybird and Servo. But Ladybird and Servo aren't ready yet.

Waterfox is a neat, well-maintained Firefox fork.

Not netscape navigator but the mozilla suscessor still lives on in the Seamonkey Suite.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

DDG won't pay them what Google does to remain the default search. It's trivially easy to change it, though.

LibreWolf gives me everything Firefox promised.

Of course I can identify it. It's me.

It's obviously still open source or the various downstream forks of it wouldn't be able to exist.

You mean LibreWolf?