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Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Looking at the linked-from-the-“due to differences”-link emails… jesus christ… so that’s what people mean by Mozilla prioritizing greedy money…

[–] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you read the developer's background and reasons for the fork, it's actually a lot more....... cringe.

Pretty much, the guy lost his shit because Mozilla is woke / SJW / DEI and all the lovely buzz words used by certain people.

[–] NiaKitty@beehaw.org 18 points 6 days ago

Thanks for sharing this, looked into it myself and that's quite unfortunate.

Why does every piece of cool software end up having some reactionary midlife crisis behind them?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 6 days ago

That would make sense. I'd like some links.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Got that vibe when he said he was ousted by weaponized cancel culture

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ngl that link puts me slightly off. It reads exactly like what people booted for very good reasons say

The following paragraph shows how so-called cancel culture was used weaponising [...]

And in the email, Mozilla talks about him violating their "inclusivity" policy... we also don't know what was reported, only the reasons stated.

Not saying that it wasn't unjust, just that we only have 1 perspective and it's written in a way that raises some red flags.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 18 points 6 days ago

Pretty bad when one side's perspective makes them look awful and the other side is the one accusing them of being awful 😬

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 week ago

I agree that I'd be very curious as to what the violations actually are, but...

No specific instances of violations are referenced in the CPG emails
There's no language in the CPG emails regarding prior warnings
Suspension from the council is clearly out-of-process

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Mozilla doesn't do loose coupling of UI and core, huh?