Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger
I’ll second IRC. I don’t need my chat to be e2ee, and encryption has made Matrix a much bigger pain in the ass than it’s worth to me.
Forums, too, though I’m a big fan of the distributed social media space. Lemmy has an experimental front-end based on phpBB, and I would love to see someone take that idea and go whole hog on it to create proper federated forums.
I don’t know, I think having tech groups that are more interested in social issues than the technology itself is a good thing. Way, waaaay too many tech folks keep unleashing hell on the world because they don’t care to consider the impacts of what they make or do.
Mozilla’s issue really seems to be more one of conflict of interest. They need funding, and the only way they seem to be able to reliably get it is to be and remain compromised.
I cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not, have never been, and quite likely never will be search engines. You may as well ask your a auto-complete questions.