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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.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 191 points 1 day ago (8 children)

While this is a good move, I don't think John Mastodon was making anywhere near the kind of money to turn into the next Musk or Zuck to begin with.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can see exactly what he made in 2023. The report is available here.

€60k

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

I read that url as blog.johnmastodon.org and for a second I was seriously wondering if that name was real lol

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[–] ysjet@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

uh... ok? So now it'll be controlled by someone who DOES want to be the next Musk or Zuckerberg?

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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have recently been using it more to connect with others on a new subject, but now for the first time ever on the internet since early 00's, we are all owners of it ourselves. All the great new stuff was always owned by others and frankly I'm sick of it.

I never even liked twitter. Then I followed #nature and #bloomscrolling on mastodon for a while and my home feed was a feast of beautiful pics. So now there's one use for me for microblogging. Neat! Mastodon does what it says it does and even offers 'default' instances. I'd love for some GO's to help reach that donation goal quicker, so we can all get with the program and ditch corpo social media. -Why doesn't my library host it's own peertube?? #MakeLibrariesGreatAgain

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[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

152k to 1.5 milhouse is definitely an astronomical increase. Where does that number come from? For that matter...has he been funding all of this on his own up until this point?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree that 1.5 milhouse is quite a lot.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

everything's coming up thrillho

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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.
[–] stinerman@midwest.social 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

The computer program called Mastodon was (and still is for now) completely controlled by Eugen Rochko. In the future it will be controlled by a non-profit.

See this and this for more info.

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