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To the surprise of no one - Mozilla should have just made accounts on some server and promised support for said server
Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you're not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.
I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instances.
It solves the following issues
The whole Fediverse is still a little on the niche side, but if growth continues, I think this is exactly another development. When you work for Company X, your work email is usually [email protected], likewise I would expect official Fediverse presences.
Where it will probably take off though is when somebody starts selling corporations a turn-key solution. Kind of how products like Outlook took over corporate email.
I definitely agree on news organizations doing this (and even government departments), but the problem with Mozilla doing it is they were running a server any of us could join - if they don't have the resources to run it for themselves, they definitely shouldn't be doing it for others to join.