It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.
Given the concern, it would be good to be explicit in the blog post. What other assets does it genuinely need? The code is open source, people are free to host instances
No mention of the name Mastodon and copyrights which I seem to recall is one of the bigger complaints
These are part of the assets that will be transferred from the GmbH to the non-profit.
Given the concern, it would be good to be explicit in the blog post. What other assets does it genuinely need? The code is open source, people are free to host instances
Checking about getting it updated.
now updated.
Great news indeed then, go Mastodon!
Lemmy has the same issues I believe. Lots of people not exactly happy with the two core devs either