Mozilla's Didthis is a personal project journal with community
Mozilla offers another take on its vision of a healthy, feel-good internet. Its new journaling app Didthis comes with a community.
The Didthis app from Mozilla creates a personal feed about the progress of the project.
A digital project diary that can only be shared with friends as a feed: With "Didthis", Mozilla is venturingfurther into the world of social networks. Users of the app can document how they are getting on with their crocheted sweater, what new chords they have learned on the guitar, or how far they have come with their "self-built living room table" project. Mozilla, mostly known for its Firefox browser, claims to be taking a new direction with projects like this. The aim is to focus on the healthy use of social media and to promote platforms where there is less hate and abusive criticism. Didthis is the latest project on this topic, Mozilla shares in its blog.
After launching the beta version of the iOS app at the beginning of the year, Mozilla is now launching the app for Apple users at least. However, anyone wishing to use the service with an Android device will have to be patient. Mozilla offers a waiting list for this.
No unwanted comments
Didthis is Mozilla's take on a digital diary. The focus: personal heart projects and hobbies. Users can record their progress step by step and add photos, notes and links. The application uses this to create a feed, through which the project progress is poured into a form: a classic project diary.
According to the announcement, the added elements are initially only accessible to the users themselves by default. Anyone who wants to share their progress can of course do so. Mozilla emphasizes that project managers can choose their own private target group. In this way, the project story can go to people who also value the work and the progress of the process.
Similar approach to personal blogs
The Firefox provider's platform is not only reminiscent of the 2000s, when the classic blog was particularly popular for personal stories. After all, the exact link was also necessary for these personalized pages to be found. It also combines functions of existing social networks, such as the collection function of Pinterest and the storytelling approach of Snapchat stories.
Self-realization with feel-good interactions - that is the approach Mozilla is pursuing, according to the blog post. "Didthis is not really part of 'social media', at least not yet," Mozilla explains there. However, the provider does not want to completely rule out the community edition: "If Didthis is well received, we will add social and community functions over time." However, the focus is always on prioritizing healthy interactions over virality. The organization had already ventured in this direction at the beginning of 2023 with the vision of a healthy use of social media and work on a public instance on Mastodon for this project. Then, just a few weeks ago, it was said that Mozilla wanted to reduce the effort involved in this as part of cost-cutting measures.
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