Yeah you're correct the deal was cut off late last year so it was not renewed for 2025 but it was on the radar for a couple years. It's why the sudden sketchy rush for other sources of income so they can keep going as normal. I did make an edit to my post and changed 'comes' to 'has come'.
It's been set up to fail. Over 80% of their revenue was from that deal and Google could likely dictate whatever they wanted as part of it. That income is the only thing that even allowed for such an insane pay package for their c-suite in the first place, and so the current form of Mozilla is a direct result of all that cash. It's supposed to be a nonprofit and now they're basically in withdrawal because they cannot afford their insane"normal tech company leadership" salaries.
Idk how Mozilla survives this without another sugar daddy, the leadership pay looks like the biggest liability killing the company and they have to willingly give it up before the company goes bankrupt and/or becomes another ad machine.
I would really love for them to drop pocket and all their other stupid shit and just make a browser like they used to. Even just that is a huge undertaking these days though, and that is because of (again) Google's ability to basically dictate web standards. They strung Mozilla along as a pet "look we're not a monopoly" competitor while continuously raising the bar to entry for any competition. I think the antitrust case should have gone after web standards to allow for competition rather than basically cutting off the only real competitor, but that would have been harder to do and the actual case was based specifically on Google's search and ad monopoly rather than the chromium browser monopoly.
I had a similar experience with various formulations. Vyvanse was the best but it really didn't work for me long term and with the tolerance it became a requirement to take in the morning or I would basically be asleep all day. I keep some around for occasional 'get shit done' days but I haven't filled a script in years. Stratterra and a couple others didn't really help me at all.
Most of their income has come directly from Google, the incumbent browser monopoly. I'm full tin foil hat on this one, Google is pulling the strings here.
? It's a well established strategy. I'm not speculating, this is how social media marketing works. You can find all sorts of resources on how marketers strategize about these things.
I'm not trying to tell you how to post, genuine recommendations are the only form of advertising I respect. But it is advertising and companies have every incentive to astroturf that.
Sorry, I meant nothing towards anyone in particular, just mostly want to point out the strong likelihood companies are posting here. It's a when, not an if. The bigger Lemmy gets the more money there is to be made here.
Well sure it is. I mean nonpaid advertising is the best kind for everyone since it's likely to actually be honest and actually listened to but it's not always easy to tell from some comments what their true motivations are. Thus the existence of astroturfing.
Kagi probably has a social media manager or hires a marketing agency (as most companies do) and their time would be well spent posting on Lemmy (and other sites) about Kagi but in as organically of a way as possible since we're all pretty ad averse here. I mean, it's possible Kagi specifically isn't doing it, but it is a matter of when, not if, companies start doing that here.
The only factors keeping guerilla advertising off Lemmy are its relative obscurity and maybe association with less advertising-friendly instances (which afaik are mostly defederated from the biggest instances). We aren't immune to astroturfing by a longshot.
In the case of Kagi, the degooglers are basically their market. Here is probably one of the best places to reach an audience since it's basically people fleeing similar tech bro overreach from reddit.
I think Kagi is fine btw but I also think knowing that we're just as if not more susceptible to this kind of marketing is important to keep in mind for the health of the fediverse.
Not trying to say there is no organic discussion, but I would be shocked if they were ignoring this avenue for getting the word out. It's basically free advertising and advertising is generally expensive.
I mean the idea is to appear organic, it's not very effective advertising otherwise. It's free real estate there is no reason they would not be doing it.
No offense taken! Thanks for your thoughts. I did quite a bit of experimenting back in the day and never really understood the high prices that coffee grinders demanded since I couldn't tell much difference with the aero press as long as it had a burr (blade grinders probably should not even be called coffee grinders). Certainly no improvement as noticeable as using pre-ground vs freshly ground at least.
My Slim is rather beat up these days - I'm surprised it works as well as it does with all my abuse. Maybe I'll grab a pricier grinder and crack open a new set of experiments with pour overs this time around. There are wayyy more options available now than I recall.
So stainless burrs start off sharper but will dull over time whereas a ceramic burr is functionally the same forever but can break if you drop it or get something hard stuck in the grinder.
Though the only reason I say that ceramic is better is because you're generally not supposed to soak the metal burrs in water and I like the ease of cleaning them that way.
That's very optimistic. Mozilla is not in good shape and the c suite may simply ride their paychecks from the endowment off into the sunset.