Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
arstechnica.com
Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

I honestly did not realize this was not already the case but it is a good move to make right now. Hopefully folks will start to recognize the Fediverse for what it is and can be and explore coming to the Activity Pub side over using Bluesky.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Unfortunately the news says he’s stepping down as CEO so he can focus more on product. Which means he’s going to continue to block the user’s feature requests, it seems.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        A lot of fedi software is created by not great people sadly, even lemmy.

        Only a few projects I know of are created by actually decent people who care about the community and don’t have terrible beliefs/views.

        ‘Soft’ forks can only do so much and still rely on the upstream releasing new versions.

        Hard forks are quite unlikely to get either the same kind of backing or be able to be supported as much even if the people behind them have good intentions and viewpoints/beliefs.

        Sadly, under capitalism this is likely to be the case, even in the open source sphere, it’s the people that have the money or who can attract it that are able to continue working on things such as this full time and, unsurprisingly, that tends to be people who uphold power structures, not dismantle them.