Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit(blog.joinmastodon.org) |
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit(blog.joinmastodon.org) |
It's great they're keeping everything 501c3, this is definitely a solid foundation for the future of the project. It's very unfortunate to hear about the German status being withdrawn but maybe that's just a temporary operating hiccup. Either way, encouraging news in general. I'm am seeing some rumbles on Masto about particular chosen board members. I don't have a take on this other than to note that 501c3 boards are kind of just people who exist and set direction but they don't really have a lot of hands on involvement most of the time /shrug
If anyone on the board or project is watching this space, please set up a Mastodon-as-a-service and offer your software, completely managed, as a turnkey "bring your own domain name" sort of offering like Google Workspace / O365 but for social. Good way to bring money in and you can get other nonprofit humanitarian orgs on the AP ecosystem.
Plugging engagement on Reddit but not Mastodon. JFC.
Cousin of the Kennedys? UK here, I'm out of the loop except for the one who's an anti-vaxx loon.
cool, then someone can fork and launch their own Masto alternative or some other AP compatible software can grab mindshare. I don't see this as an issue for the ActivityPub ecosystem (and I personally love the Masto project, but diversity in the AP ecosystem just drives everyone to be better.)
But for a social network that lives or dies by the network effect, the outlook isn’t good for a Mastodon that gets forked.
The RISC-V foundation had to move to Switzerland because of concerns about government interference.