Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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from admin@science.social to technology@beehaw.org on 15 Jan 06:44
https://science.social/notes/a313poo8p0oe00oo
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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Just for my understanding, wasn't OpenAI not also a nonprofit and is now a forprofit and the CEO is at least as bad as Zuckerberg?
I understand it will make it a little bit harder, but nothing prevents Mastodon to go the OpenAI way or is the situation different in some way?
OpenAI is a for profit company, owned by a non profit. External investors can invest in the for profit subsidiary, but it is still owned by the non profit. Investors are only allowed a capped amount of profit. (The capped amount is still bajillions afaik). But the for profit is legally bound to follow the non-profit’s mission.
gizmodo.com/to-further-its-mission-of-benefitting…
I didn’t know that! Thanks for the article
I wonder if there’s a single person out there who can’t see that this sentence / sentiment is complete dogshit (including the thief who said it).
The main difference is that the project will be owned by the non-profit foundation. This still leaves mastodon.social in the for profit Mastodon gGmbH but Mastodon itself is safe.
Also worth noting that this was done in Europe (not the US), so corrupting the nonprofit should be harder.
Ah, of course the guy motivated by money ensures he can keep getting it.
Let’s hope he will invest it in moderation worth a damn.
Sadly it sounds like he’ll still be in charge of the project so he can keep ignoring user issues and pull requests that are actually useful and instead keep making changes that users don’t like, want or need.
Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅
This was me directly translating from German I think :D
Mastodon is also open source and decentralized, trying to turn it into anything else will meet so much resistance from the community, Mastodon will likely just get forked.
They don’t own most Mastodon servers anyway (I think only mastodon.social but not sure)
There was no danger of that happening, Mr. Mastodon
That’s good on them for doing that. It is also good for Mastodon in general since it means they are building the staff that can grow the service.
I’m going to download a sketchy Chinese app instead.