"Mozilla is closing their fedi instance and diving into AI."
Remember that Mozilla has always been a company which chases "new things". In fact, one of them even blames wasting time on trying to build an OS or whatever for failing to improve their web browser.
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Also, going by commentary on it, Mozilla seemed to run their fedi instance really badly, so is one less badly run instance that much of a loss?
That aside though, launching new projects, wasting time on them, only to shutter them later, is something which Mozilla seems to do a lot.
