Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.
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"The people should own the town square"
Who could say it any better? Social media has to be a part of our public infrastructure or else it is just a tool of public manipulation and oppression.
It is antithetical for social media to be owned by a corporation.
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@Mastodon You should also consider changing hosting providers, outside the United States.
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@Mastodon This is great.
What I find amazing and very frustrating is that even when opinion journalists address these issues seriously and thoughtfully they almost always fail to mention Mastodon -- as here:
"We need to support the creation of other platforms that are designed not to amplify lies and hate, or to just suck our personal data and sell us things, but to promote a better conversation."
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Mastodon last edited by
@Mastodon whew! this is good. this is really, really good. had no idea Germany stripped y’all of the non-profit status and that’s why you had to incorporate in the US.
so this will ensure the USA has no jurisdiction over Mastodon the software company, the software, correct?
the only quibble would be the TLDs: .social and .online are controlled by USA providers. there’s still vulnerability to abuse of power with the TLDs being under USA jurisdiction.
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Renaud Chaputreplied to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 last edited by
@blogdiva @Mastodon The US non-profit has no relationship with the german structure, and never had. The stripping of the german non-profit status is coincidental and completely unrelated.
We try to use EU-based companies where we can, unfortunately it is very hard to do it for everything, domain names being a good example, and we consider this very low-risk (especially compared to other things like legal jurisdictions, or shareholder structure) -
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@Mastodon Seize the means of discussion!
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@andypiper @richlv @Mastodon Can you also add any trademark licenses that you may be granting?
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Michael Downey 🚩replied to Dirk Gütlin on Mastodon last edited by
@DirkGutlin Following "only" 130 people is often going to be pretty limiting in terms of seeing new original content, because most people don't post that much.
If you don't want to see replies or boosts in your timeline, just click the gear at the top and switch them off.
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@Mastodon Thank you
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@Mastodon ok sure, hands of power be shifting #westaycritical
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@Mastodon Wishing you the best. Waiting for the day when Mastodon and Fediverse become household names, like Wikipedia.
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> we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)
Huh. You can't transfer copyrights to an organisation. At least not that of German contributors.
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Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲replied to Dirk Gütlin on Mastodon last edited by
@DirkGutlin @Mastodon It's good that you found something else. Also, your reply is entirely unrelated to the original post.
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@andypiper @richlv @Mastodon Are you saying that you're not going to disclose whether a trademark license is part of the deal, and if it is, its terms? A secret license is in large part what facilitated Mullenweg's behavior
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Questions for Mastodon:
Will there be a trademark license from the Mastodon non-profit to Mastodon GmbH?
If so, what will be the terms of the license?
Why are you not assigning the domain names to the non-profit entity?
Why will there still be a for-profit company?
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@Mastodon Great & appreciated Mastodon team
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@pchestek @richlv @Mastodon the board and officers will be announced as part of this process. The trademark questions will be resolved (transparently) as part of this process. The GmbH currently has employees so continues to exist to cover them. This is a transition and your questions are valid and useful, but I don’t have answers at this stage as the end state is not fully set (the blog post states we are looking into the correct jurisdictions etc). Thanks!
