Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.
"We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation."
Apparently chanting "free and open, free and open, free and open" while raking in sh1t-t0ns of money didn't fool the German tax authorities
So move to the United States, where the tax system and the IRS are deliberately intended to benefit the rich
#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
It should be noted that the designation "non-profit" is nothing other than a #US / #German#TaxShelter play
It has absolutely nothing to do with a double-entry, debits-and-credits-based fiscal analysis or audit of #Gargron's books by a legitimate accounting firm
Short title: The rich get richer, while the poor stay poor
No surprise there: that's what #Mastodon has been all about, all along...
i wish gargron would say literally just a single word about FediPact, even just something short and dismissive like "not a fan," so i could quote it on the website lmao
Neither #Zuckerberg nor #Gargron has bothered to explain what this little House-of-Mirrors game they're playing is all about, but it is not#Federation or any thing like it
My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.
Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹
As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁
2/
The thing that buggers me the most is boosting.
I know boosting is important because it’s the only way to spread the news around as there are no #algorithms here to force-feed us what they “think” is good for us, and I’m quite a #booster myself, too. But I’ve cut back a bit recently for a simple reason: I can’t hide boosted posts from my #profile.
I mean, when someone views my profile I want them to see my toots first so they can get an idea of who I am and, conversely, when I visit someone else’s profile I prefer to see what they have to say.
If you’re a generous booster but not so creative in the “#ContentCreation” department, just like me, you get a profile full of re-blogged posts where your original #toots are hard to find. And no, #Pinned toots don’t do the trick.
If there’s a #hack to work around this, I would much appreciate if you share it here.
With all due respect, I'm pretty sure the "core project" is doing quite well, as evidenced by the screenshot you attach, where we see Gargron with a ('M' for monthly, is it?) monthly enumeration of EUR 3000
How many of the roughly 12,100 --> other <-- #Mastodon instances pay their lead admins --> anything <-- per month?
Note: Donations made to Mastodon don't necessarily support the individual Mastodon server you utilize. Please consider supporting your local Mastodon server.server. Even with just $1/mo
"Note: Donations made to Mastodon don't necessarily support the individual Mastodon server you utilize. Please consider supporting your local Mastodon server.server. Even with just $1/mo"
Glad to see someone bringing this up
The table "Renumeration" shows Gargron drawing down -- what? per month? -- EUR 3000 M
@mikey
Dieser Blogbeitrag ist auf jeden Fall lesenswert. Bringt mich nicht dazu, #Gargron mehr oder weniger zu mögen, denke ich. Außerdem gibt es diesen rhetorischen Trick, der #Mastodon so aussehen lässt, als wäre es das #Fediverse...
Holy shit. It's not just that the #Lemmy dev is a tankie, he's a LaRouche conspiracy-brain NazBol. Okay #fediverse tell me how this isn't as bad as Gleason's Soapbox and how you are separating art & artist because making them a Eugen-level BDFL just has to happen because of the #Reddit exodus.
@jo Even more than this, I am starting to wonder if there’s a little obsessiveness over ousting tankies? Happy to be schooled on this, if you’re progressive/left, I feel like there’s a natural mode of tolerance and acceptance, especially if they’re pro-FOSS, fediverse, and anti-facist,racist?
Like, how capitalist is #gargron or some other big admins and how helpful on the BIPOC issues here have they been? Are we going to cancel them too?
Yea, it's a nice idea, except #gargron has little influence over other generic instances.
My general read on #mastodon's movements lately is that it's taking it's brand and product a tad more seriously now, which involves stretching out and flexing it's muscles a bit more. It's so big though that a little push from mastodon is huge for the fediverse.
mastodon's reality: App + mastodon.social + software stack = a brand, full product & UX.
Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era....
“However, I think that possibly going forward, we might rework the onboarding user experience into presenting a default option as well as an advanced option, where all that stuff with choosing a server would basically be hidden away from the people who get intimidated by choice.
Also Another statement about groups (which isn’t new to me)
“What’s next for Mastodon? What should people be on the lookout for next?
Groups, probably. That’s a big feature that’s coming. Well, it’s what you would expect. Facebook has groups, Twitter has communities, and Mastodon will have groups as well.”
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? (www.theverge.com)
Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era....