dot directories in my home directory

I’m getting sick of all these “dot” folders in my home directory. And even moreso, of some programs not even use .directories, but instead .programname_file1, .programname_file2 (For example: .bash_history, .bashrc, etc). I’m glad people are trying to incorporate moving all dot-folders into ~/.config, via the open desktop standards.

Also, dot-folders need to make more sense. why is .mozilla for firefox, but .mozilla-thunderbird for Thunderbird?? It’s just a gigantic mess.
I made a few symlinks for this, but the dot-folders still exist. For example, ~/.mozilla –> ~/.config/firefox. You can do this with the following command :

ln -s reallocation newlocation

For my example above, this would be :

ln -s ~/.mozilla ~/.config/firefox