The poll is over, and the result is clear:

#FireFox users have very little interest for Chatbot integration into their browser.

I am very much aware that the people, who voted in this poll are hardly a representative sample, but more than 2.4K people is a better size than many “professional” opinion polls.

@mozilla & @firefox should take people, who actually care about their #browser choice, seriously.

I still seriously believe that #Mozilla’s fate matters,

https://berlin.social/@mina/113102817500429735

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  • Mina@berlin.socialOP
    610·
    2 months ago

    @cmeio

    Yes and no.

    Obviously, the people questioned here, are not representative for the entire FF user community.

    However: The Fediverse at large is a community of mostly tech-savvy people, who do care about independence from major corporations.

    These are, in fact, also the people who are the core users and developers of FOSS software.

    Whilst the exact percentage means nothing, the tendency is so clear that it should, at least, be taken into consideration.

    Did you read part 2 & 3?

    • biscuitswalrus
      16·
      2 months ago

      https://johnmjennings.com/an-important-lesson-from-bullet-holes-in-planes/

      The responses needs to be contain representation at least equally to non Firefox people who no longer care to answer a poll about a product that they don’t use. Why? Only current users are going to answer the poll, not the people with the cuts and pain that forced them back to Chrome or safari. Asking survivors how to reinforce survival actually doesn’t solve for why do many people off board Firefox.

      Frankly you should ask people like my 60-70yo parents why chrome not Firefox. You’ll learn more from that than the corrected responses of people who loudly have preferences but at the end of the day would stay either way. My parents tried Firefox, but then left it. Although they only tried from insistence from their son.

      PS: I agree with the poll. I don’t want a chat bot either. If I did, I’d install a plugin that integrates once of my own choosing. Given the availability, privacy, and ease of lmstudio I’d rather leave it in its own place outside the browser and network. I don’t know how those like my parents feel about a bot that can probably answer their questions. I also doubt they care. Maybe it would help them ask questions they’re too embarrassed to ask friends and family for. Usually how to questions they’ve asked dozens of times. But that’s super dangerous.

      • Mina@berlin.socialOP
        1·
        2 months ago

        @biscuitswalrus

        i agree with most of what you say, however: The poll was specifically directed towards the still dwindling user base.

        The dream of pulling over people in masses from Chrome, Safari or Egde towards Firefox because of some cool and hip feature, totally doomed to fail, IMO.

        Where we stand now, it is far more important to keep the existing users happy.

        So no. I targeted exactly the right people.