Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch
Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch
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Mastodon announces transition to nonprofit structure | TechCrunch
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This is an encouraging development. Decoupling development from server management will help level the playing field.
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The Fediverse is a great idea, but tbh there’s a lot about the current generation of apps that is centralised in other ways that will doubtless compromise them later. As we can see from how even instance mods can behave, any concentration of power at all can and will lead to fief building. The aim should be to allow the network paradigm to have enough plurality and redundancy to outlive such politicking.
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This is good news and will affect its dozens of users.
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I know you meant it in jest, but I think the last I saw, it was at 9mil and growing steadily.
And TBH, that relative lack of general attention is probably a good thing. Too much growth too fast could swamp or sink some instances.
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There's dozens of us! Oh wait, yeah.
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The blog post noted that the new Europe-based nonprofit entity will wholly own the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity. The organization is in the process of finalizing the place where the new entity will be set up.
could this be cause for concern down the line? i mean this as a genuine question. i don’t really know how these things work. my understanding is some weird non-profit and profit mixture is what led to problems at openAI. but that said, i also know that the people at the company make a difference, and sam altman is very likely much worse than the mastodon CEO. anyways, it would be nice to know more about this relationship between the profit and non profit side of things.
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Iirc, Mozilla has a similar structure and it causes some problems with donations
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The steps taken linking Mastodon > Fediverse > Wordpress > Matt Mullenweg makes sense and is the kind of publicity/damage control the platform needs to get ahead of.