Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don’t use Mastadon cause I don’t care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What does ceding control even mean? Mastodon, just like Lemmy, is federated - each instance has its own governance. It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

    He can cede control of the GitHub repository, I guess, but:

    1. That’s giving the controls to the contributors, not the users.
    2. The article does not even hint at the existence of source code, and the announcement itself doesn’t talk about changes in that aspect either, so I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.