I wish they had a mastodon account… they have https://mozilla.social, but they don’t have an account there… which is bizarre.
They do have an account for Firefox Nightly and Firefox Dev Tools account though.
My Mastodon feed is pretty dry. Does anyone have any follow recommendations for active accounts that post about tech stuff Or pictures of critters?
Consider subscribing to a hashtag. That way your feed will be a lot more active.
deleted by creator
they have https://mozilla.social
What is this?
It’s Mozilla’s mastodon instance: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/
Why does it look nothing like Mastodon?
Probably a custom theme.
It’s elk. https://github.com/elk-zone/elk
It’s a shame that they are still using Twitter instead of Mastodon
Mozilla has set up an instance on Mastodon. But it is understandable that they have presence on mainstream social media websites since that is where most of their users are.
If there’s an official account for Firefox on mastodon or elsewhere on the fediverse it doesn’t appear to be easy to find.
There is a @mozilla@mozilla.social, but despite having twenty thousand followers it appears to have been inactive since June and has only ever made 7 posts.
Can’t spread the good word if you avoid the largest userbases
Wait, red pandas are called firefoxes?
Red Pandas are also often known as 火狐 in chinese, which literally translates to “fire fox”.
probably from all the rampant arson they commit
looked it up, seems it was a misunderstanding. Firefox, the browser, was originally named after a red panda (https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.html)
and in china, the browser is named “Huo Hu” (the characters you pasted, which indeed translates to firefox). The actual red panda is called “Xiao Xiong Mao” or “小熊猫” in china, which literally translates to “little panda” (or “red panda” if put into google translate).
so 火狐 means firefox, an alias/nickname for the red panda
and 小熊猫 means red panda, the actual animal
Found this on the FF Wikipedia page.yeah, it’s a nickname for it, and I wasn’t quick enough on my edit to fix that before your reply, but if you pop in the two terms into an image search engine, you’ll see 火狐 is not literally red panda in chinese, but 小熊猫 is all red pandas.
I came across it when I saw a reddit comment from a chinese person stating the correction: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604172848/https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3nof72/til_that_the_red_panda_is_firefox_in_chinese/ (or can copy/paste everything after old.reddit if you don’t care about the data tracking, for the faster page load)
Firefox, the browser, was originally named after a red panda
Actually, it was originally named Phoenix. Then they changed it to Firebird to avoid infringing on the Phoenix BIOS company’s trademark, then they changed it to Firefox because there was already a database program named Firebird.
Ackchyually, Phoenix was named such because it rose from the ashes of Netscape Navigator. and I’m sure some internet historian is able to come along and go further back than that, but going through the entire genealogy of the name firefox wasn’t inside the scope of what I was originally ackchyually’ing.
I can see how me saying “originally” can be seen as going all the way back, but what was meant by that is the original intent of only the name firefox, specifically - using mozilla’s own words, and if you clicked on my link to the mozilla archive, they bring up it being similar to firebird, too. But again, it was outside what I was commenting on.
It was just so a meme doesn’t make people go around confusing anyone fluent in chinese that we’re getting it wrong about them, but this is just a trivially small corner of the internet, and it’s going to happen regardless, anyways; it’s too fun of an idea to pass up, like how I see being passed around that the chinese call owls “sky cats” when it ended up being “cat (head/bald) eagle”.
deleted by creator
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a red panda.
That just makes no sense. Next you’ll tell me that onions have no business in making my Tor experience more anonymous either?
You traffic runs though physical onions
layers and layers of it.
What’s a Twitter
Furry porn site
X marks the spot.
A cess pool
Town Square for idiots
deleted by creator
Let people enjoy things
Let people hate things.
The screenshot is from Squawker which is an anonymous read-only Twitter client, Twitter is shit but I thought it’d be worth mentioning that.
It is worth mentioning!
I was sticking up for OP who just wanted to post a meme but this place can’t help itself from repeating the same sentiments over and over like a bad tick
Sounds like Reddit.
When they get back from watching CinemaSins and see this comment they’re gonna be pissed.
Fellow Squawker user, for the handful of accounts that somehow haven’t dipped from that cesspit lol
deleted by creator
Firefox needs to bring back Foxkeh globally and give us Foxkeh plushies dammit 😭
mid tbh
