Mozilla announced on its blog the start of a limited beta testing for its network, mozilla.social, built on the free platform of Mastodon. This platform allows for microblogs in the style of Twitter and creating a federated network of fragmented servers through a set of Activitypub protocols. Users of different servers with their own rules can communicate with each other, allowing for independence from individual companies’ policies and serving the people’s interests rather than the needs of shareholders.
The use of united decentralized social networks, known as the fediverse, grows in popularity, but Mozilla.social’s key difference is its own modification policy. Mozilla representatives believe that decentralized social sites that declare neutrality to content contribute to abuse, persecution, and attacks on participants.
Mozilla.social’s communication rules, based on Mozilla’s manifesto, prioritize human dignity, cooperation, inclusivity, safety, and self-expression that does not harm other participants. Communicating via mozilla.social prohibits derogatory expressions, bullying, offensive and arousing statements associated with such topics as gender, age, language, marital status, nationality, race, social status, religion, and others.